Howley v. Kantor

The plaintiff was struck by the defendant’s automobile and injured while she was crossing Merchants Row in the city of Rutland at about nine o’clock in the evening of March 4, 1930. It is not questioned that the evidence reasonably justified a finding by the jury that negligence of the defendant proximately caused the accident, but the question of plaintiff’s contributory negligence, as a matter of law, is raised by defendant’s exception to the denial of his motion for a directed verdict.

Merchants Row is a busy street in the heart of the business' section. This streets runs north and south,…