People v. Hahn

THE COURT.

The defendant appeals from the judgment that followed his conviction on a charge of having failed to yield the right of way to a pedestrian who was lawfully in the crosswalk at which the defendant had been halted by a traffic signal saying “Stop.” As debated by the parties to this action, the important question before us, and to which they desire us to give an explicit answer, is this: Must a driver of a motor vehicle, who is waiting at an intersection’s crosswalk because the traffic signal is against him, continue to wait, after the “Go” signal appears, until all the pedestrians in…