State Ex Rel. Stehley v. Belle Isle Cab Co.

I cannot agree that when a “safety zone”, sometimes called a safety island, does not extend to a street intersection, it is for the street car passenger, as a matter of law, only a safety island, completely surrounded by a sea of perils, where he has no right of way to escape to either shore, automobiles on every side have a right of way to mow him down blindly and he can only plunge into the sea and perish, unless by chance, without legal right or protection, he manages to reach shore and survive. In his plight this court says that “the truck driver [or the taxicab driver] was not bound to…