Furrer v. Milwaukee & Suburban Transport Corp.

The principal issue raised on this appeal is whether the trial court erred in refusing to submit a special verdict question and related instructions to the jury, both as requested by plaintiff-appellant.

The only question submitted to the jury (which the jury answered affirmatively) with regard to the possible negligence of the bus driver was as follows:

“Was the bus company operator negligent in not allowing the plaintiff to alight from the bus at a place which was safe and proper for that purpose under the circumstances then and there present?”

The court instructed the jury that:

“. . . once it…