Ohlemacher v. Bennett

Plaintiff ip error claims that the trial court erred in refuging to direct a verdict in favor of the defendant.

This court has held in the case of Valentine vs. Pavilonis, Vol. 33, Court of Appeals Opinions, Sixth District, unreported, p 33, (6 Abs 462) that where a pedestrian looks both ways before starting across a street and it does not appear from such testimony as to whether he looked in either direction after he left the curb, and he is struck by an automobile just before he gets to the center of the street, he can not be held to be guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law.

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