Johnson v. Prange-Geussenhainer Co.

.The following opinion was filed March 10, 1942:

Fairchild, J.

There was raised an issue of fact as to the cause of the icy condition of the sidewalk and an issue of law as to the responsibility between the two defendants. Of course it is elementary that plaintiff’s right to recover must rest upon some wrongful or negligent act by either or both of the defendants and that had the ice been merely a natural formation no legal liability would have accrued. Griswold v. Camp (1912), 149 Wis. 399, 401, 135 N. W. 754; Adlington v. Viróqua (1914), 155 Wis. 472, 475-478, 144 N. W. 1130; note (1914), 51…