Coleman v. Stacy

The defendant testified that the accident occurred in the narrow space between the city refuse truck, which stood at the curb on his left, and a car parked on the opposite side of the street; that he decreased his speed to fifteen or eighteen miles an hour as he entered this narrow space, and that the plaintiff appeared suddenly in front of the left fender of his car. There is nothing in his testimony to warrant the inference that he saw or ought to have seen the plaintiff in time to avoid the accident.

The witness Elizabeth M. Gray described the accident as follows: “I was sitting at the…