First National Bank & Trust Co. of Racine v. S. C. Johnson & Sons, Inc.

On its appeal S. C. Johnson & Sons, Inc., contends, first, that the opening in the curb in the middle of the block was not an actionable defect. For authority it relies on Kuchler v. Milwaukee (1917), 165 Wis. 320, 162 N. W. 315. The trial court in that case directed a verdict against a plaintiff who was injured when he stepped into a hole in a curb about three and one-half feet distant from the crosswalk, on the ground that the hole was so far from either the crosswalk or the sidewalk that the pedestrian could not get into it without leaving the traveled portion of the thoroughfare. We…