Shasky v. Burden

While crossing a main street in a marked, signal-controlled crosswalk, plaintiff Catherine Shasky was struck and injured by defendants’ automobile. The jury returned a general verdict in favor of the defendant driver and plaintiffs appeal the judgment entered upon it. Plaintiffs assign error to instructions given and refused, to submitting the issue of contributory negligence to the jury, and to the court’s refusal to direct a verdict in their favor.

Broadway, at its intersection with 19th in Everett, was a heavily traveled main street running north and south through a business or commercial…