Garlington v. McLaughlin

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the plaintiff—the estate of a horseback rider hit and killed by a 22 truck—could not prove negligence simply based on the showing of injury to the rider but 23 must demonstrate negligence of the truck driver by a preponderance of the evidence
• “Sidewalks being in fact safety zones, an injury to a pedestrian thereon by a motor vehicle has been held to be prima facie evidence of negligence on the part of the driver.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).