Gotschall v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad
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Last cited by a Minnesota appellate court in 1926, among the opinions in this site’s citation index.
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Cases that cite this one
4 later published cases cite this decision.
- Kansas City Southern Railway Company v. Johnston (Okla. 1967)
- CHICAGO, M., ST. P. & PRR CO. v. Linehan (8th Cir. 1933)
- Gotschall v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad (Minn. 1915)
- McDonald v. Great Northern Railway Co. (Minn. 1926)
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Opinion of the Court
The evidence in this case made the question of defendant’s negligence one of fact for the jury, and the trial court erred in directing a verdict for defendant. The question whether the rule of res ipsa loquitur applies to the facts disclosed by the record is disposed of by the opinion in the case of Wiles v. Great Northern Ry. Co. supra, page 348, which is followed and applied.
This action was brought by the personal representative of decedent, and the construction of the Federal statute as given by St. Louis, S. F. & T. Ry. Co. v. Seale, 229 U. S. 162, 33 Sup. Ct. 651, 57 L. ed. 1129, is not in point. That was an action by the individual beneficiaries and not by the administrator of the estate of the deceased. So that in the case at bar the question whether the grandmother, administratrix, or decedent’s, father, is entitled to the money recovered, if plaintiff prevails in the action, is not involved at this time.
Order affirmed.
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