Brown v. Milwaukee Terminal Railway Co.

The following opinion was filed April 2, 1929:

Eschweiler, J.

There is no substantial dispute concerning the facts material for consideration on this appeal and further detailed statement of them is not necessary. The question presented is the narrow but troublesome one as to whether a person passing along a sidewalk on a public street in the city of Milwaukee, failing in no respect to exercise ordinary care for his own protection, injured by the blowing down of a dead tree standing between the sidewalk line and the curb of such public highway, may recover damages against an owner of the…