Johnson v. McCune

Holt, Justice.

Thirty-ninth street, as it crosses Minnehaha avenue in the city of Minneapolis, runs east and west and is 32 feet wide between curbs. Minnehaha avenue runs slightly northwesterly and southeasterly until near Thirty-first street. The avenue is paved, 50 feet wide between curbs, with double streetcar tracks in the center. On September 5, 1936, about 8:30 o’clock in the evening, plaintiff, about 68 years of age, and his wife, about 72 years, came from a meat market on the west side of Minnehaha avenue, near Fortieth street, and walked north on the westerly sidewalk until they…