Betancourt v. Wilson

At Jackson Avenue in The Bronx, East 151st ■ Street, a westbound one-way thoroughfare, comes to a dead end. Traffic moves north and south in Jackson Avenue *467across the intersection and out of East 151st Street into the intersection. On June 17, 1954, plaintiff Donald Betancourt, then 16 years old, and three companions about the same age engaged in a ball game in this dead-end intersection.

While playing this game plaintiff was struck, or so a jury has found, by an automobile operated by the defendant in a southerly direction in Jackson Avenue. The vital question that the case presents is…