Slindee v. City of St. Paul

Julius J. Olson, Justice.

Defendant appeals from an order denying its alternative motion for judgment or a new trial.

These are the facts: Plaintiff and her husband were occupying an apartment on the second floor of a building fronting on Holly avenue. Their only means of ingress and egress was the entrance on Holly avenue. At about 9:30 o’clock in the evening of March 8, 1943, plaintiff took her “little seven-year-old Scottie” dog out for •its customary evening “airing.” The husband worked on a night shift, and for that reason plaintiff alone took the dog out for its evening chore. All that…