Gartland v. Freeman

This is an action of tort to recover compensation for personal injuries alleged to have been received by the plaintiff through the negligence of the defendant. There was testimony tending to show that shortly after midnight the plaintiff started to walk across Washington Street from the easterly to the westerly side, first looking both ways for approaching automobiles and looking again after taking a few steps; that he saw none near him until almost half way across when, hearing "the hum of a motor” *522approaching from his right, he stopped and saw the defendant’s automobile about thirty feet…