Korakakis v. Freeman

The victim of this pedestrian-automobile accident appeals from an adverse judgment. She alleges two errors: the court’s refusal to instruct the jury in accordance with her twenty-first proposed instruction, and confusion in the court’s reinstruction on contributory negligence. These claims, which we consider both separately and cumulatively, do not compel a reversal of the judgment.

We need recite the facts but briefly. When on December 5,1955, appellant walked along Balboa Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, she opened her umbrella to protect herself from a drizzle. She stopped on the…