Mitrovitch v. Graves’s Empirical Analysis

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13 state decisions

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1. ““The phrase employed in the statute which requires a pedes trian crossing a street or roadway at a point other than the regular marked crosswalk, to ‘yield the right of way to all vehicles’ does not mean that a pedestrian ventures upon a public highway or street at his peril, or that he must flee at sight of an approaching vehicle. The phrase merely means that when the course of an automobile along a highway meets with that of a person who seeks to walk across the street or roadway at a point other than along a marked crosswalk, under circumstances which render a collision likely, the pedestrian must stop and permit the vehicle to pass ahead of him. Yielding the right of way, within the meaning of the statute, merely means that the pedestrian shall defer to the driver of the vehicle and wait to permit the machine to pass ahead of him. That section is not intended to grant to vehicles a monopoly of streets or highways to the exclusion of pedestrians.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. Wray

2. “merely means that when the course of an automobile along a highway meets with that of a person who [ 161 Cal.App.2d Supp. 846 ] seeks to walk across the street or roadway at a point other than along a marked crosswalk, under circumstances which render a collision likely, the pedestrian must stop and permit the vehicle to pass ahead of him. ... The rule applies only under circumstances when the opposite courses of the vehicle and the pedestrian render it dangerous for both to proceed on their respective ways without delay. Under such circumstances, the pedestrian must stop to permit the vehicle to precede him.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 161 Cal. App. Supp. 2d 842 - People v. Miller