Himmel v. Finkelstein

The yellow stripe in the center of the highway denoted a division of the road into one-way lanes. Brown v. Bush, 220 Ala. 130, 131; 3-4 Huddy, Automobile Law (9th ed.), p. 181. Painted lines are used so generally for this purpose that licensed operators of automobiles are presumed to understand their significance.

The defendant had been driving cars under a New Hampshire license for three or four years and had been a licensed operator in Massachusetts for the preceding eighteen years. He lived in Nashua and had driven over the road in question many times. He knew that he was going upgrade on a…