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210 Minn. 270

297 N.W 739

Winning v. Timm

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided May 2, 1941

Supreme Court of Minnesota · decided 1941-05-02

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently July 1955

3 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““Error, if any, in a ruling on the trial may not be reviewed on an appeal from a judgment if appellant did not take an exception to the ruling on the trial or assign it as error in a motion for a new trial.” (Citing prior cases.)”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Meiners v. Kennedy

Relies on Duluth, Missabe & Northern Railway Co. v. McCarthy · Johnson v. Gustafson · Lundblad v. Erickson

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1941-05-02

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Per Curiam.

¶1 Plaintiff appeals from a judgment dismissing his cause of action. The only error assigned here is that “the court erred in granting *271 respondent’s motion to dismiss for insufficient evidence to warrant tlie jury in finding in favor of the plaintiff.”

¶2 At the close of plaintiff’s case defendant moved for a dismissal on the ground of insufficiency of the evidence. The trial court granted the motion. No exception was taken to this ruling. There was no motion for a new trial and consequently no assignment of error in the court below.

¶3 Error, if any, in a ruling on the trial may not be reviewed on an appeal from a judgment if appellant did not take an exception to the ruling on the trial or assign it as error in a motion for a new trial. 2 Mason Minn. St. 1927, § 9327; 1 Dunnell, Minn. Dig. (2 ed. & Supps.) §§ 388, 388a; Le Mieux v. Cosgrove, 155 Minn. 353, 193 N. W. 586; Peterson v. Township of Manchester, 162 Minn. 486, 203 N. W. 432; Lundblad v. Erickson, 180 Minn. 185, 230 N. W. 473; Duluth, Missabe & Northern Ry. Co. v. McCarthy, 183 Minn. 414, 236 N. W. 766; Johnson v. Gustafson, 201 Minn. 629, 277 N. W. 252.

¶4 Presented at the outset with this situation, we do not deem the other questions involved in the appeal as properly before us.

¶5 Affirmed.

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