Robb v. City of Milwaukee

As appears from the foregoing statement, the plaintiff Marie was walking east on the sidewalk on the north side of a city street adjacent to a ball field maintained by the city when struck in the eye with a hard baseball knocked by a batter that caromed off the top of a six-foot fence close to the sidewalk. On the trial a jury found, (1) playing baseball on the field rendered the adjacent walk “unsafe and dangerous to pedestrians;” (2) this was the efficient cause of plaintiff’s injury; (3) a want of ordinary care on plaintiff’s part contributed to her injury; (4) twenty-five per cent of the…