Novak v. Dewar

— Plaintiff appeals from an adverse judgment entered upon a jury verdict in her action for damages for personal injuries suffered when she, a pedestrian, was struck by defendant’s car in a marked crosswalk. She properly maintains that the evidence establishes negligence as a matter of law on the part of defendant and is insufficient to support a finding of contributory negligence on the part of plaintiff; and the judgment must therefore be reversed.

About 7 :45 p. m. on September 1, 1958, plaintiff was attempting to walk across “A” Street at its intersection with Fourth Street in Oxnard. “A”…