Keeling v. Neuss Floor Covering Company, Inc.

Taking the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, the jury could reasonably have found the following facts: He was struck and injured by a truck of the defendant while crossing State Street in Bridgeport at a point some distance from any street intersection or usual crosswalk. He passed between two parked cars and went a foot or two beyond them, looked to the right and left but saw no car approaching. He then proceeded to walk slowly straight across the street without looking again for approaching traffic. When he had proceeded some eighteen feet to a point a little beyond the…