Greenlee v. City of Belle Plaine

Reasons for reversal are predicated upon failure to give instructions requested, error in submitting others on the district court’s own motion, and refusal to direct a verdict in favor of appellant because of contributory negligence.

Historically, the facts are: That appellee, at about 5 o’clock in the afternoon on September 19, 1924, was walking on a cement sidewalk of the public street in front of the Citi zens National Bank of Belle Plaine. The passage was- bnilt of blocks, each four feet square, and as this- pedestrian was thus: proceeding, her foot caught in a depression caused by the…