Case Name: NOAH SWENSON v. CHARLES ERLANDSON and Others
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1899-06-29
Citations: 77 Minn. 189
Docket Number: Nos. 11,664—(224)
Parties: NOAH SWENSON v. CHARLES ERLANDSON and Others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Minnesota Reports
Volume: 77
Pages: 189–190

Head Matter:
NOAH SWENSON v. CHARLES ERLANDSON and Others.
June 29, 1899.
Nos. 11,664—(224).
New Trial — Hicks v. Stone Followed.
Hicks v. Stone, 13 Minn. 398 (434), followed, and order granting a new trial affirmed.
Appeal from an order of the district court for Lac qui Parle county, Qvale, J., granting a motion for a new trial.
Affirmed.
K. O. Jerde and A. J. Volstead, for appellant.
Palmer & McElligott and E. T. Young, for respondents.

Opinion:
BUCK, J.
Action to recover damages of defendants for their negligence in setting fire to the barn and personal property of the plaintiff, whereby such property was destroyed. On the trial the plaintiff had a verdict, and upon a settled case the trial court granted a new trial. Even though there was some evidence reasonably tending to support the verdict, yet there was not such a manifest and palpable preponderance thereof as to warrant this court in overruling the order granting a new trial, and the case of Hicks, v. Stone, 13 Minn. 398 (434), and numerous subsequent cases in this court to the same effect, control this one.
Order affirmed.