Shepherdson v. Storrs’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““To a question calling for the basis of the defendant’s liability the jury answered: ‘For negligence in not using proper precaution on entering the intersection of the street. She was not looking for approaching vehicles from the right or north, or she would have seen the horse and buggy.’ It is contended that this is outside of any negligence pleaded and is not supported by any evidence. Among other grounds of negligence set out in the petition was the ‘violation of the rules of the road, as defined in section 7, paragraph b, of the ordinances of the city of Topeka, being ordinance numbered 4664, approved September 8, 1916.’ Paragraph b of section 7 of that ordinance reads: ‘The ordinary rules of the road shall govern, and the driver to the right has the right of way.’ The plaintiff entered the intersection from the north, defendant from the east. The plaintiff, therefore, had the right of way, which implies that the primary obligation to prevent a collision was upon the defendant ’" (p. 149.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Balandran ex rel. Balandran v. Compton