Crawley v. Hill

Under the evidence we are primarily concerned upon this appeal with the percentage of negligence each actor contributed to the total result. The jury determined that both the pedestrian and the driver of the automobile failed to exercise ordinary care but in 'computing the total negligence they apportioned defendant’s responsibility at eighty per cent and the deceased’s at twenty per cent. In challenging the result defendant contends that as a matter of law Crawley contributed at least fifty per cent. He points out that deceased was by law required to yield the right of way under the…