Harder v. Matthews

Citations

• 67 Wash. 487
• 121 P. 983
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1202

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Coepoeations — Use of Streets — Collision With Automobile — Contributory Neglioence — Evidence—Sufficiency. A pedestrian hurrying diagonally across a busy street to catch a street car on the opposite side of the street, is guilty of contributory negligence, as a matter of law, preventing recovery for damages from being struck by an automobile going in the opposite direction, where it appears that she left the curb 150 feet from the crossing, near a standing express wagon which obstructed her view of approaching vehicles, that she walked from behind the express wagon and stepped in front of the approaching automobile without seeing it, and the driver did not see her until she was struck, notwithstanding that the automobile was being driven at the rate of 25 miles an hour.</p>