Levesque v. LaFortune

Plaintiff appeals from judgment of no cause for action, entered, on motion of defendants, under CL 1948, § 691.701 (Stat Ann § 27.1471), after disagreement of the jury. The court found plaintiff guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law.

Plaintiff undertook to cross from east to west a north and south, 2-lane, paved highway. Defendants’ automobile was approaching from the south. Plaintiff testified that as he stood just off the east edge of .the pavement he saw def endants’ automobile 200 to 300 feet to his left; that he concluded that he could cross in safety, undertook to do so,…