Lowen v. Pates

Loring, Chief Justice.

This is a personal injury case. It comes here on appeal from an order denying a motion for a new trial after a directed verdict for the defendant at the end of plaintiff’s case in chief.

October 25, 1942, around eight p. m., on a clear night, plaintiff was walking north on the easterly side of Dale street in St. Paul. He continued walking in the same direction on the crosswalk at the well-lighted intersection of Dale and Dayton. He looked in both directions before he started across. He reached a point within five feet of the northeastern curb of the intersection, where,…