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37 Minn. 370

Barker v. Todd

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided October 28, 1887

Supreme Court of Minnesota · decided 1887-10-28

Appeal by defendants from an order of the district court for Dakota county, refusing a new trial, after a trial before Crosby, J., and verdict for plaintiff.

Relies on Wilson v. Minnesota Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance · Byrne v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co.

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Decided 1887-10-28

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Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1916

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Vanderburgh, J

¶1The first, second, and third assignments of error embrace objections to certain instructions to the jury. But no exceptions were taken at the trial to any portions of the charge of the court. It appears from the settled case that the exceptions now relied on were made after verdict, upon the motion for a new trial, and were then noted, allowed, and considered by the court. But such exceptions were then too late, and are ineffectual for any purpose. The defendant must be deemed to have acquiesced in the charge as given, by failing to object and call the attention of the court to the objectionable portions of the charge in time to enable it to reconsider, explain, or correct them before the trial was completed. Roehl v. Baasen, 8 Minn. 9, (26, 33;) Wilson v. Minn., etc., Ins. Ass’n, 36 Minn. 112, (30 N. W. Rep. 401.) The motion was denied, and plaintiff cannot complain of the decision thereof, though the exceptions were improperly allowed. But since they are nugatory, they cannot be insisted on by the defendant here, as ground for granting a new trial.

¶2The fourth and last assignment of error is that the verdict is not sustained by the evidence. But this point was not considered by the trial court on the motion for a new trial, and does not appear to have *371been made. It cannot be urged for the first time in this court. Byrne v. Minn. & St. Louis Ry. Co., 29 Minn. 200, (12 N. W. Rep. 698.)

¶3Order affirmed.

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