Pierce v. Armour & Co.

Taking the facts favorable to plaintiff as found by the jury, we may say that as the plaintiff was crossing Bridge street in Plattsburgh, on foot, passing from the south to the north side of the street, he was run down and injured by a truck owned by the defendant. The plaintiff had passed at least to or perhaps beyond the street car tracks in the center of this thirty-two-foot paved street. The truck coming from the west would naturally have passed behind plaintiff on the south side of the street. Instead the truck was running near the center of the street and swerved to the left and struck…