Huhta v. Maloney

Defendant appeals from a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff in the amount of $10,000. Defendant also appeals from denial of motions for a directed verdict and for a new trial.

At about 10 p.m., on March 2,1956, plaintiff, a 43-year-old farmhand, left a restaurant in the town of Mass in the Upper Peninsula and walked in a northwesterly direction along Adventure avenue to a point where 14th street intersects Adventure avenue. To this point plaintiff claims he was walking on the sidewalk at the edge of the highway; that there was snow piled on both sides of the highway but that it had been pushed…