Arnold v. Stewart

SHANNON, Judge.

This appeal is from a directed verdict for the defendant at the close of plaintiff’s evidence. It was an action for damages from the alleged negligence of the operator of a motorcycle striking a pedestrian, who was attempting to cross the highway. There was an answer denying negligence and setting up contributory negligence.

The facts, as put into the record on behalf of the plaintiff, showed that the pedestrian was walking across a street in the City of Clearwater in the daytime and that when he was struck, he was walking to the northeast and had gotten over the center-line to…