Dunn v. City Bank Farmers Trust Co.

This is a personal injury action in which the plaintiff recovered a jury verdict. Defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict is before the court for decision.

The case involves the civil duty of a landowner who voluntarily undertakes to clear snow from the adjoining sidewalk.

The great snowstorm of December, 1947, finally stopped *971in the early morning hours of the 27th, leaving the city under a two-foot layer of snow and enmeshed in a traffic snarl that was not fully cleared for weeks thereafter. At the time of dusk on Sunday, the 28th, the plaintiff was injured in front of the defendant’s…