Thiel v. Kennedy
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Bamsey county to recover $5,000 damages for personal injuries. The case was tried before Brill, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for the amount demanded. From an order denying a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
START, O. J.
This is a personal injury action, and the defendant appeals from an order denying his motion for judgment or for a new trial.
The plaintiff on August 2, 1899, lost her right arm while operating for the defendant, in his laundry, a machine known as a “centrifugal extractor” or “clothes drier.” This machine is put in and out of motion by shoving a belt, which runs from the drive pulley on the line shaft, from a loose pulley to a fixed pulley, close together, on the countershaft, and vice versa. The appliance whereby the belt is thus transferred from one pulley to the other is known…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Burke v. . WitherbeeNew York Court of Appeals · 1885
- Smith v. St. Paul City Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1884
- Neubauer v. Northern Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1895
- Olmscheid v. Nelson-Tenney Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1896
3Cited by6 opinions
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- State v. RonkSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1904
- Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. HaydenCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1902
- Wiita v. Interstate Iron Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1908
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