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175 Minn. 328

221 N.W 232

Rau v. Smuda

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided September 28, 1928

Supreme Court of Minnesota · decided 1928-09-28

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Decided 1928-09-28

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Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1963

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Wilson, C. J.

¶1 (dissents upon the ground that there should be an affirmance, but concurs with the views expressed in paragraphs 1 and 2 of the opinion).

¶2 I concur in the opinion in so far as it supports paragraphs 1 and 2 of the syllabus. To that portion in support of paragraph 3 of the syllabus, I dissent. That portion of the charge quoted was not literally correct. I regard it as a clerical or inadvertent inaccuracy which should have been called to the attention of the court. It was not. No exception was taken in reference thereto. Furthermore, the court correctly covered the matter when this language was used:

“It Avould be the duty of Miss Rau to take into consideration all of the facts that she ascertained in being at the Engelhart residence to determine whether or not the state of intoxication of Smuda was such as to render it unsafe for her to travel with him.”

¶3 This and other portions of the charge covered the rule with such accuracy that the refusal to give the requested charge in. defendant’s language should not be reversible error.

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