Barrett v. City of Virginia

After verdict for plaintiff, defendant appeals from the order denying its alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding or a new trial.

While crossing one of the streets of defendant city on a paved crosswalk December 22, 1928, plaintiff fell and was injured. The verdict implies a jury finding that defendant was negligent. There had been enough of a snowfall so that shortly before the accident the city’s snowplows had been run over both streets and sidewalks at the intersection in question. At this corner, the evidence for plaintiff is that the snow had been ^artificially accumulated by the…