Martinovich v. E. R. Jones Co.

The primary question presented by the record in this case involves the relative rights of a pedestrian and automobile at a street intersection where traffic is controlled by the usual automatic signal with alternating green and red lights.

The only action of the trial court which the Court of Appeals found constituted error prejudicial to the plaintiff in the trial court and the only ground upon which that court based its judgment of reversal consisted of failure to instruct the jury in the general charge upon a proposition of law suggested by a special request of the plaintiff to charge…