Krafft v. Hirt

Dell, Chief Justice.

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff as the result of a motor-vehicle collision caused, so it is claimed, by the concurrent negligence of both defendants.

For several days prior to the accident the defendant Northwestern Bell Telephone Company had been splicing cable contained in the north sidewalk of the Kellogg bridge on Third Street in St. Paul. On the morning of January 9, 1958, two employees of the telephone company parked two of the company’s trucks near the middle of the bridge for the purpose of continuing with the…