Case ID: minn_115/html/0542-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MELVIN FINTON v. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
    
    October 27, 1911.
    Nos. 17,287—(61).
    Discretion of court.
    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in a personal injury action in reducing a verdict of $1,900 to $1,200, and denying a new trial, after two verdicts for plaintiff. [Reporter.]
    Action -in the' district .court .for Ramsey comity to recover $15,000 for personal injuries. The answer put in issue the allegations of the complaint respecting plaintiff’s injuries. The case was tried before Kelly, J., and a jury which returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff' for $1,900. From an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial, if plaintiff consented to a reduction ot the verdict to $1,200, it appealed.
    Affirmed.
    
      M. L. Countryman and W. L, Clift, for appellant.
    
      Kennedy & Kennedy, for respondent.
    
      
      Reported in 132 N. W. 1134.
    
   Per Curiam.

Plaintiff was a railway mail clerk, and was injured while riding in a mail1 ear on- defendant’s road.' The train ran off the track, the ear was derailed andi upset and took fire." The plaintiff recovered a verdict of $1,900, which was. reduced by the trial court to $1,200. The defendant complains that the verdict, as reduced by tlie court was not justified by the evidence, was excessive, and. was given under the influence of passion and prejudice. An examination of the record leads to the' conclusion that the objections are not well-founded, and that the trial court did not. abuse its discretion in denying the motion for a new trial.

Affirmed.

Bunn, J., took no part.