Wojdyla v. City of Park Ridge

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that plaintiff who crossed a six-lane country highway outside of a crosswalk in order to reach his parked car was not an intended user of the roadway
• finding that plaintiff who crossed a six-lane country highway outside of a crosswalk in order to reach his parked car was not an intended user of the roadway
• holding “[t]hat pedestrians may be permitted to cross the street mid-block does not mean they should have unfettered access to cross the street at whatever time and under whatever circumstances they should so choose”
• enumerating customary use of intersections as unmarked crosswalks as an indication of intended use
• no duty owed to pedestrian crossing highway where no crosswalk while en route to parked car
• “Pedestrian walkways are designated by painted crosswalks by design, and by intersections by custom. These are the indications of intended use”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).