Marilyn Van Matre v. Milwaukee Electric

On February 16, 1951 at about 7:10 a. m. plaintiff, a nineteen year-old girl was standing with some eight to twelve other
people at the southeast corner of the intersection of South Ninety-second Street and West Dakota Street in the town of Greenfield,
Milwaukee County. They were waiting for the approach of and to board defendant's north-bound bus. 92nd Street was paved in
its center with black top to a width of seventeen feet; it was bordered on each side by a five-foot gravel shoulder. On the
day in question there was a snow bank at the east edge of the road about three feet high commencing at the corner and running
southward about a block. 92nd Street was very icy and its surface slippery. It declined slightly at its approach from the
south to West Dakota Street. Plaintiff was standing on the gravel shoulder about a foot west of the snow bank and four feet north of a telephone pole
to which was attached a bus stop sign. Some of the other people were with plaintiff to the north of the pole and others stood
to the south of it.