Tiffany v. Drummond

Two assignments of error are relied upon:

1. That the court should have directed a verdict in favor of defendant on the theory that plaintiff was himself negligent. He d'd not continue on the crosswalk, but angled north so as to reach the opposite side of the street about 70 feet above the corner. Pie looked both *48ways for approaching vehicles just as he started, but upon his own testimony it is not quite clear how often he .looked south after he started and became engrossed in the enterprise of crossing the torn-up roadbed of the north-bound track; certainly he did not so look within a few…