McCORKELL v. CITY OF NORTHFIELD

No. 39673.

136 N.W.2d 840 (1965)

Nellie M. McCORKELL as trustee for next of kin of William J. Fleming, deceased, Respondent, v. CITY OF NORTHFIELD et al., Defendants, City of Northfield, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

July 23, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sawyer & Lampe, Northfield, for appellant.

Erickson, Popham, Haik & Schnobrich, and G. Marc Whitehead, Minneapolis, Warren D. Chamberlain, Faribault, for respondent.


THOMAS GALLAGHER, Justice.

Action for death by wrongful act brought by Nellie M. McCorkell, maternal grandmother of William J. Fleming, decedent, trustee for the benefit of his next of kin. Decedent met death while imprisoned in the municipal jail in the city of Northfield on June 11, 1961.1 He left surviving as next of kin Marjorie Bolin, his mother, and William Fleming, his father, who had...

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