Winters v. Minneapolis & St. L. R. Co.
Decision Date | 19 November 1915 |
Docket Number | No. 19480[119].,19480[119]. |
Citation | 154 N.W. 964,131 Minn. 181 |
Parties | WINTERS v. MINNEAPOLIS & ST. L. R. CO. |
Court | Minnesota Supreme Court |
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Appeal from District Court, Ramsey County; William Louis Kelly, Judge.
Action by George H. Winters against the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad Company. From denial of alternative motion for judgment or new trial, defendant appeals. Affirmed.
See, also, 127 Minn. 532, 148 N. W. 1096.
The evidence was sufficient to go to the jury upon the question whether or not the defendant was negligent in using a wrench in a hydraulic jack, instead of a lever, and whether or not such negligence resulted in injury to the plaintiff.
The court did not err in rejecting evidence offered by the defendant as to experiments made with a jack and a lever on the day following the injury. W. H. Bremner and F. M. Miner, both of Minneapolis, for appellant.
Barton & Kay, of St. Paul, for respondent.
Action to recover damages sustained by the plaintiff while in the employ of the defendant. A verdict was had for the plaintiff. The defendant appeals from the order denying its alternative motion for judgment or for a new trial.
[1] 1. The case was here before, and is reported in 126 Minn. 260, 148 N. W. 106. The facts of the case are there stated in detail. It is unnecessary to repeat them. The evidence, with some exceptions, is the same on both appeals; and but one material question, not determined on the former appeal, is before us.
In the former case, on the pivotal question involved on the appeal, the court said:
The case was reversed because of the failure of the evidence to show...
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