Shipman v. Foisy

This is a personal injury action involving the not unusual questions of negligence, contributory negligence, intervening cause, and amount of damages.

A judgment of $15,000 for general damages and $1,566.90 for special damages was entered upon the verdict of a jury in favor of Charles Wesley Shipman and his wife. Mr. Shipman will be referred to as though he were the only plaintiff (ánd respondent).

The jury must of necessity have found that the plaintiff had caught his toe in “a small hole, a chip out,” in the slide area of a bowling alley and, in consequence of the fall resulting therefrom,…