Miller v. Cook

Wealthy street in the city of Grand Rapids is a main thoroughfare, 42 feet wide, running-east and west, at which vehicles traveling on- intersecting streets are required to stop. Lafayette avenue, one of the intersecting- streets, is 30 feet in width, its northerly intersection with Wealthy being-farther east than the southerly intersection.

On January 18,1938, plaintiff was walking across Lafayette avenue from east to west at the north intersection. As he was about to step to the curb on the west side of the street, he was struck and thrown against a guard rail surrounding the entrance to an…