Todd v. Lewis

Citations

• 92 Wash. 213
• 158 P. 1006
• 1916 Wash. LEXIS 736

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Streets—Collision With Automobile —Contributory Negligence — Evidence—Sufficiency. A pedestrian, struck by an automobile while crossing a street diagonally at a point other than a crossing, is guilty of contributory negligence, precluding a recovery, although she testified she looked back several times, where she was contradicted by the only two witnesses who saw the accident and by her own statements, and it appears that she hurriedly stepped out from a crowd collected in the street without looking back.</p> <p>Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Alston, J., entered December 16, 1915, upon findings in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by a pedestrian struck by an automobile. Reversed.</p>