Kapilonuz v. Sundman

The trial court has found the following facts: About 10.40 p. m. on December 28th, 1934, the plaintiff alighted from a trolley car on the northerly side of Pine Street in Bristol. The paved portion of the street south of the trolley track was twenty feet wide with a sand shoulder of the width of about three feet. The region is very sparsely settled and there were no street lights in the immediate vicinity. The plaintiff, dressed in dark clothing, proceeded easterly, walking near but slightly to the right of the center of the paved roadway, taking no precautions to observe whether traffic was…