City Cabs, Inc. v. Griffith

194 Va. 818 (1953)

CITY CABS, INCORPORATED

v.

HAROLD GRIFFITH.

Record No. 4041.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 20, 1953.

Present, All the Justices.

1. In the instant action for property damage caused by a collision, the court below acted correctly in setting aside a verdict for plaintiff on the ground that the driver of plaintiff's cab was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law. Since the driver's testimony showed that as he was entering an intersection he failed to see defendant's car approaching from the right until he was in the center of the street and it was within sixty feet of…