Grier v. United States

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

McMILLAN, District Judge.

Ethel Mae Grier sued the United States under the Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1346(b) (1964), for damages for bodily injuries sustained when she collided with a United States mail truck in Charlotte on November 1, 1965, while trying to cross College Street at Fourth Street. The case was tried by the Court without a jury, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2402 (1964).

At the intersection pedestrian and vehicular traffic was controlled by a duly installed red-yellow-green traffic light. Under North Carolina law, despite the color of a traffic light, both…