Vollert v. City of Wisconsin Rapids

Is There Evidence to Support the Verdict?

The record contains credible evidence to support the jury’s finding that the city of Wisconsin Rapids was responsible for •raising the grade. Mr. Vollert testified that it was an agent of the city who raised the catch basins in 1957, and he also testified that it was the same city employee who raised the manholes. Mr. Sullivan, the county highway commissioner, testified that county employees constructed the road based upon the “existing catch basins and manholes.” In our view, the foregoing was sufficient to warrant the jury’s determination of this…