Douglas v. Holcomb

The traffic accident out of which this case arose occurred in the city of Birmingham on April 16, 1952, about 10 o’clock in the forenoon. At the time plaintiff was undertaking to cross Woodward avenue, a main-traveled thoroughfare approximately 76 feet 6 inches in width from curb to curb. He was proceeding in an easterly direction on the crosswalk on the south side of Hamilton street, which intersects. Woodward avenue from the east but does not cross it. The proofs disclose that Hamilton was 40 feet in width. Defendant James Samuel Holcomb was operating an automobile owned by the other…