Hoeft v. Milwaukee & Suburban Transport Corp.

Did the trial court err in instructing that the pedestrian had the right-of-way in crossing a street at an intersection where intersecting vehicular traffic was required to stop for posted signs

The trial judge, in essence, gave the jury the standard Wisconsin Jury Instruction, Civil, Part I, 1255, which recites that at a crosswalk or at an intersection not controlled by traffic control signals or by a traffic officer, the operator of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian who is crossing the highway within a marked or unmarked crosswalk. The court also included the admonition…