Swanson v. LaFontaine

Dell, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order denying plaintiff’s motion for a new trial in a personal injury action after a jury verdict for the defendant.

At the southeast corner of the intersection of Fifth and Market streets in St. Paul, and adjacent on the west to the St. Paul Hotel, is the St. Paul Hotel parking lot. A sidewalk on Market street runs along the westerly side of the lot and a sidewalk on Fifth street along its northerly side. A driveway extends into the parking lot in a southerly direction across the Fifth street sidewalk sloping up from the level of Fifth street and…