Thoreson v. Milwaukee & Suburban Transport Corp.

Because of the number of errors assigned, they will be stated and discussed seriatim.

1. Jury instructions.

A. Right-of-way.

The transport company claims error in the court’s refusal to give an instruction to the effect a statute requires every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk to yield the right-of-way to all vehicles on the roadway. The court did give the standard instruction Wis J I — Civil 1030 on the transport company’s right-of-way. In Lisowski v. Milwaukee Automobile Mut. Ins. Co. (1962), 17 Wis. 2d 499, 117 N. W. 2d 666, this court said an…