Mueller v. City of Milwaukee

At about 10:50 a. m. on February 10, 1954, Mueller was walking south between West Fiebrantz avenue and West Capitol drive along the east sidewalk of North Nineteenth place. He testified that because of the accumulation of melting snow and ice on the sidewalk he walked on an embankment of incrusted ice and snow in the parkway between the sidewalk and curb; that there was a path worn in the embankment which he estimated as approximately six inches high. When he had traveled about 35 feet on the parkway he broke through the snowbank, sustaining *223injuries to his ankle. He was familiar with the…