Bohn v. City of Racine
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Eacine county: E. B. BeldeN, Circuit'Judge. Action to recover for personal injuries claimed to bave been caused by tbe insufficiency of a sidewalk in tbe defendant city upon tbe east side of Villa street between Fourteenth and Eifteentb streets, about eighty feet north of the latter.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Eacine county: E. B. BeldeN, Circuit'Judge. Action to recover for personal injuries claimed to bave been caused by tbe insufficiency of a sidewalk in tbe defendant city upon tbe east side of Villa street between Fourteenth and Eifteentb streets, about eighty feet north of the latter. Tbe defect claimed consisted of an abrupt drop in tbe surface' of tbe walk of about eight inches, created by tbe construction of a new cement walk, from Eifteentb street north to tbe point in question, higher than the surface from there on, which bad been partly…
1Opinion of the CourtMaeshall, J.
To the trial court there was presented for determination a question as to whether there was evidence susceptible of a reasonable inference that appellant, on the occasion of his injury, was guilty of contributory negligence. That question was deliberately decided in the affirmative. The effect of this appeal is to challenge that decision as one not only wrong, but clearly so. Powell v. Ashland I. & S. Co. 98 Wis. 35, 73 N. W. 573; Nicoud v. Wagner, 106 Wis. *34467, 72, 81 N. W. 999. As has often been said, in effect, if there is room for conflicting reasonable inferences on the record as it comes…
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