Case Name: BRIDGET MURPHY v. ST. PAUL CITY RAILWAY COMPANY
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1895-12-23
Citations: 63 Minn. 301
Docket Number: Nos. 9748-(223)
Parties: BRIDGET MURPHY v. ST. PAUL CITY RAILWAY COMPANY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Minnesota Reports
Volume: 63
Pages: 301–302

Head Matter:
BRIDGET MURPHY v. ST. PAUL CITY RAILWAY COMPANY.
December 23, 1895.
Nos. 9748—(223).
Appeal — New Trial — Sufficiency of Evidence.
Great weight is given by this court to the opinion of the trial judge in granting a new trial for insufficiency of the evidence to justify the verdict. Hicks v. Stone, 13 Minn. 398 (434) followed.
Same.
Upon a careful perusal of the evidence, and mature reflection, it is held that the evidence in this case is so far from being manifestly and palpably in favor of the verdict that the preponderance thereof is against it.
Appeal by plaintiff from an order of the district court for Ramsey county, Otis, J., granting a motion for a new trial.
Affirmed.
Edg&rton da Wiclmvre, for appellant.
Murni, Boyesen da Thygeson, for respondent.
Reported in 65 N. W. 356.

Opinion:
BUCK, J.
This case comes within the rule laid down in Hicks v. Stone, 13 Minn. 398 (434), and repeatedly followed by this court; and the evidence is so far from being manifestly and palpably in favor of the verdict that the preponderance thereof is against it. As great weight is given by this court to the opinion of the trial judge, and there appears no abuse of his discretion, the order granting a new trial is affirmed.