Kirk v. Los Angeles Railway Corp.

Plaintiff was nonsuited in an action for personal injuries claimed to have been received as the result of defendant’s negligence.

Broadway, a north-south street, crosses at right angles Seventh, an east-west street in the city of Los Angeles. Both streets have double streetcar tracks on them. The traffic at the intersection is controlled by a traffic light. At 11 o’clock at night defendant was operating a southbound streetcar on its west track on Broadway. Plaintiff, a pedestrian, was proceeding west across Broadway on the south side of Seventh in the middle of the lane marked for pedestrians.…