Nevarez v. S.R.M. Management Corp.

Extensive and consistent precedent of this Court establishes that the driver of a car traveling on a dominant or through street with the right-of-way is entitled to presume that a driver approaching an intersection on the subservient street controlled by a stop sign will yield. Because the plaintiff failed to come forward with evidence of negligence on the part of the driver on the dominant street, I respectfully dissent.

In my view, the motion court erred in denying the defendants’ summary judgment motion. The evidence establishes that the defendants’ vehicle had the right-of-way and that, in…