Lelasher v. Elm City Trucking Co.

The evidence clearly shows that the plaintiff passed a “stop sign” as she entered the intersection when the collision occurred. In entering from the plaintiff’s left into this intersection the defendant operator was entitled to assume that the plaintiff would obey the direction of the stop sign and to govern his conduct accordingly. In this assumption he was disappointed. The plaintiff did not obey the stop sign. The claim under which the plaintiff attempts to justify her failure to stop at the indicated sign is that she did not see it, and that her vision of the sign was obstructed by a…