Workman v. Stehlik

Plaintiff, Frances E. Workman, appeals from the judgment of the district court which reversed a judgment in the amount of $945 plus costs entered in her favor by the county court following a bench trial. She assigns as error the findings by the district court that she was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law and that her negligence was sufficient to bar her recovery as a matter of law. We affirm.

On May 20,1988, between 5 and 6 p.m., plaintiff was driving her Oldsmobile automobile west on Luzerne Street in Table Rock. At that time she was struck by the motor vehicle being…