Kowal v. City of Minneapolis

Losing, Chief Justice.

This case comes here on appeal from an order denying an alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict of $13,000 for personal injuries or for a new trial.

Plaintiff was injured on August 4, 1946, by the breakage of an alleged defective railing on which he leaned at the intersection of Humboldt and Forty-seventh avenues north in Minneapolis. On the day of the accident, he and his wife were waiting at the intersection for the purpose of taking passage on a bus. Humboldt avenue runs north and south; Forty-seventh avenue runs east and west but does not continue…