Johnson v. Bloedel

Citations

• 102 Wash. 293
• 172 P. 1171
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 944

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations—Use of Streets—-Collision With Automobile—Contributory Negligence—Instructions. In an action for personal injuries sustained by a pedestrian, struck by an automobile while he was hurrying across a street sixty feet from a crossing, without looking in the direction from which the automobile approached, it is not error to refuse requested instructions that a pedestrian is not bound to stop, look and listen, etc., and that he was not bound to anticipate an automobile coming from the south on the left-hand side of the street, etc., where, by other instructions, the jury were properly instructed as to the law of the road and care required in using the left-hand side of the street, and on the subject of contributory negligence by pedestrians.</p> <p>Same. In such a case, an instruction that plaintiff could not recover, if it was found that he attempted to run across the street in front of a moving street car, and in so doing failed to use his faculties for his own safety and collided with defendant’s car, is not error, when taken in connection with other proper instructions defining contributory negligence.</p>