Hatfield v. Thomas

Holt, C. J.,

delivered the' opinion of the court.

Under review is an automobile collision case, which scarcely approaches the dignity of an accident.

It occurred in the city of Norfolk at the intersection of Bank street and Brambleton avenue. Bank street runs north and south, and Brambleton avenue runs east and west, crossing each other at right angles.

The plaintiff, Lydia V. Thomas, sixty-one years old, was driving her car, a sedan, north on Bank street and was approaching the Brambleton avenue crossing. As she approached that avenue, the signal light on the southeast corner of these streets…