Grimes v. Snell
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Crawford county: L. H. Bancroft, Circuit Judge. Action for damages for personal injuries sustained by a collision with defendant’s automobile occurring in the afternoon of May 15, 1919, on Main street in the village of Eastman. Plaintiff, about fourteen years of age, was crossing Main street from east to west with a pail of water.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Crawford county: L. H. Bancroft, Circuit Judge. Action for damages for personal injuries sustained by a collision with defendant’s automobile occurring in the afternoon of May 15, 1919, on Main street in the village of Eastman. Plaintiff, about fourteen years of age, was crossing Main street from east to west with a pail of water. When she had proceeded beyond the line of a car standing on the east side of the street and a short distance to the south, she says she glanced south along the street for cars and saw none. She had an unobstructed view…
1Opinion of the CourtVinje, J.
The court instructed the jury as follows:
“It was the duty of the plaintiff tó use ordinary care and prudence in crossing the street. But I instruct you that a Jfoot passenger is entitled to the right of way upon a regular street crossing; and if at the time a pedestrian leaves the curb he or she observes the street is clear and there are no vehicles on the street for a distance greater than that which would be covered by a vehicle operating at a lawful rate of speed in order to reach the pedestrian’s line of travel, he or she may proceed to cross the street on the assumption that all vehicles…
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