Arenson v. Butterworth

Central Avenue in the city of Fort Dodge runs about east and west. Twelfth Street runs about north and south at the east end of Central Avenue. Nearly all eastbound traffic on Central turns either south or north on Twelfth Street. A narrow gravel driveway runs on east from Twelfth but it is used infrequently. For practical purposes it is a “T” intersection with Twelfth forming the top of the “T” and Central the base. There are traffic control signals — stop and go lights — at the intersection.

Plaintiff, age sixty-nine, walked north on the sidewalk on the east side of Twelfth to the northeast…