Healy v. Shedaker

Citations

• 264 Pa. 512
• 107 A. 842
• 1919 Pa. LEXIS 687

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Automobiles—Street crossing — Pedestrian — Loohing — Gontributory negligence — Case for jury.</p> <p>1. Where a pedestrian, in crossing a street on a dark night, reaches an island safety zone, and then lookg southward in the direction in which the travel is coming, and seeing no vehicle approaching, proceeds without continuously looking southward for a distance of twenty feet, when she is struck by an automobile bearing no lights, sounding no warning and going at a speed of from twenty to thirty miles an hour, she cannot he charged with contributory negligence as a matter of law.</p> <p>2. If, in such a case, it appears that the driver of the car did not know there was a street crossing at this point, it was his duty all the more to have his car under such control that he might immediately stop it, or turn it aside from an object intercepting hig path.</p>