Pfeifer v. Standard Gateway Theater, Inc.

Counsel for plaintiffs on this appeal contend: (1) That the negligence of the defendant, as found by the jury, constituted a proximate cause of the plaintiff minor’s injury as a matter of law; and (2) that the trial court committed error in the instructions given to the jury on the question of proximate cause.

This case was before this court on a previous appeal taken by plaintiffs from a judgment entered upon an order directing a verdict dismissing the action. Pfeifer v. Standard Gateway Theater, Inc. (1951), 259 Wis. 333, 338, 48 N. W. (2d) 505. In our decision in that case we declared:

“There…