Pichler v. Ladwig

The only contention made by appellant here is that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law because he did not look to the south a second time sooner than he did. He took his observations when he was fifteen or eighteen feet west of the curb line of Eighth street. Defendant’s car was seventy-five or one hundred feet south of the south curb line of Ring street; that he could safely proceed across the intersection was a very natural conclusion, in view of the fact that the defendant’s car was approximately five times as far from the intersection as he -was.…