Jacobson v. City of Milwaukee

In our opinion, the trial court was correct in concluding that the verdict was not supported by the evidence.

The record is replete with instances showing the uncertainty and confusion in the mind of the plaintiff. Several such instances are referred to in the statement of facts given above.

In the first place, she was not at all certain where it was that she fell. When she related the occurrence to the police officer immediately after the fall, she said that she slipped on the icy sidewalk, and we are inclined to believe, as the trial court did, that the proximate cause of her injuries was the…