Tracey v. City of Minneapolis

1 Reported in 241 N.W. 390. Plaintiff appealed from an order denying her motion for a new trial after a verdict was directed for defendant.

For many years a bridge 1,136 feet long has been maintained across the Mississippi river in the city of Minneapolis known as the Tenth avenue bridge. On each side of the 17-foot driveway thereon there is a six-foot sidewalk seven inches high. The inside of this sidewalk forms or constitutes a curb or wheel guard. On the outside of the sidewalk and at the edge of the bridge there are iron railings three and one-half feet high.

Plaintiff's decedent drove an…