Pollard v. Rossoe Manufacturing Co.

— This is an appeal from a judgment of dismissal, entered after the plaintiff had rested, which raises an issue as to the conditions under which a disfavored driver may be entitled to recover in an intersection collision case.

The disfavored driver entered a north-south arterial from the west, intending to cross the southbound traffic lanes, make a left turn and go north on the arterial. It must be assumed, for present purposes, that though the disfavored driver had not completed her left turn, she had crossed the southbound traffic lanes and was in the northbound lanes; and that, if the…