Dierkes v. White Paving Co.

The principal claim of defendant is that the verdict is not sustained by the evidence either on the issue of negligence or violation of safe-place statutes, sec. 101.01 et seq., Stats. 1935. This contention requires an examination of the evidence in some detail. The accident happened at the intersection of Twenty-Seventh and Vliet streets in the city of Milwaukee. Twenty-Seventh street was under construction, and defendant had a contract for this work. The street in the vicinity of the accident had been excavated *663and as a result there was a drop of about one foot from the flange of the curb…