Barnes v. Winkler

This is an action to recover damages for personal injury sustained by plaintiff as a result of being struck by an automobile driven by the defendant. The court granted a directed verdict for the defendant and plaintiff has appealed.

The accident occurred at about 5:15 p. m. of a December evening, after dark and in a drizzling rain, as plaintiff, a pedestrian, was crossing Columbia Boulevard in the city of Portland. Plaintiff was a watchman employed by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, whose duties required him to go hourly through the buildings of the plant of Nicolai Door Manufacturing Company,…