Christian v. City of Minneapolis
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court for Hennepin county, Jamison, J., denying its motion for a new trial after a verdict of $3,000 in favor of plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
The plaintiff alleges that, while alighting from a street car near the intersection of First avenue south and Fifth street south, in the city of Minneapolis, she stepped into a hole in the pavement, which the city had negligently failed to repair, and thereby sustained injury for which she seeks to recover.
In his brief, counsel for the city does not make any special point as to the negligence of the city or the contributory negligence of the plaintiff. Upon both of these questions the evidence made a case for the jury. The main contention of counsel is that, in view of the undisputed facts in…
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