Miller v. Jones

Under review is another automobile accident. A pedestrian who was struck down had eight of his ribs broken. By way of compensation he has recovered a verdict and judgment. From it the defendant has appealed to this court and has obtained a writ of error.

Governing principles in such a case are not complicated, but facts sometimes shade into each other and make their application troublesome.

Here the plaintiff, G. C. Jones, a man forty-two years old, on June 1, 1938, about eleven o’clock at night, walking towards the north, was crossing High street in the city of Portsmouth where it intersects…