Dahlen v. New York Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $10,200 for personal injuries. The case was tried before Holt, J., and a jury which rendered a verdict in favor of’plaintiff for $1,500. Prom an order denying defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for .a new trial, it appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
START, .C. J.
The defendant during the times mentioned herein was the owner of a ten-story office building in the city of Minneapolis, known as the New Tork Life Building. It was equipped with four hydraulic lifts or elevators, two of them known as No. 1, a freight, and No. 2, a passenger, which received their motive power from a water tank on the top of the building through a common pipe, which divided at the sixth floor, so that from there down each elevator cylinder was supplied with water through a separate pipe. On May 13, 1908, the plaintiff, as an employee of the defendant, was…
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