Malcom v. Dempsey

HERRMANN, Justice:

This is an automobile negligence case in which the verdict and judgment were entered for the defendant after jury trial. The determinative question presented for decision upon this appeal is whether certain stop signs were properly authorized by State and local authorities so that the defendant’s admitted failure to heed them constituted a statutory violation and negligence per se.

These are the pertinent facts:

The accident happened at an intersection constructed by the State Highway Department in 1955 at Main Street and Delaware Avenue in Newark. The intersection was an…