Oulman v. City of Minneapolis

Plaintiffs, Harlan and Alice Oulman, husband and wife, appeal from an order denying a new trial and a judgment entered pursuant to a jury verdict finding defendant city 55 percent negligent and plaintiff wife 45 percent negligent in an accident in which plaintiff wife was injured due to a fall caused by an obstruction in the city’s sidewalk. The jury assessed plaintiff wife’s damages in the sum of $2,000 and made no award for the husband in his suit for consequential damages.

Plaintiffs assign as basis for the appeal two errors, namely (1) that the trial court erred in failing to instruct the…