Brown v. St. Paul City Railway Co.

Knutson, Justice.

Appeal from an order denying defendant’s alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding a verdict for plaintiff or for a new trial.

For an understanding of the decisive questions involved in this appeal the facts may be briefly stated. On May 16, 1950, at approximately 3:45 p. m., plaintiff left the office at which she worked at 244 Dayton avenue in St. Paul and walked about three blocks to where she intended to board a westbound Selby Lake streetcar at a point where it emerges from a tunnel. It had been raining during the day but had stopped raining when she left her office.…