Baston v. Shelton

This appeal brings before us for review a judgment based on these facts. Plaintiff at a late hour of the night started across a street in the City of Miami. Before she left the curb she saw an approaching truck about a city block up the street to her left. She did not look again until she was well into the street, then she looked and saw it only a short distance away. She took four or five steps walking faster and was hit by the right front fender of the truck. She said:

“I walked out into the street. I stepped off the sidewalk and I saw the car coming. I saw it, but I thought I had plenty of…