Carter v. C. F. Smith Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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1. ““A pedestrian seeking to cross k street must make reasonable use of his senses of sight and hearing. Molda v. Clark, 236 Mich. 277 . The drivers of motor vehicles have no monopoly of the use of the streets and highways. The rights of pedestrians and of the drivers of motor vehicles in the use of public streets and highways are substantially the same. Each must use them with due regard for the rights of the other. A pedestrian attempting to cross a busy street or highway must frequently wait for traffic coming one way to pass him, then go to the middle of the street and wait for traffic coming from the opposite direction to pass him, and if he does so he is not guilty of negligence as a matter of law. Bosma v. Daniels, 250 Mich. 261 . Such pedestrian has a right to assume that the driver of a motor vehicle will not run him down and that such motor vehicle driver approaching will give proper warning signal indicating his approach. Reynolds v. Knowles, 223 Mich. 70 . Plaintiff was not guilty of negligence as a matter of law in standing in the middle of the street in question waiting for southbound traffic to clear.” (P. 625.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Shank v. Lucker