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304 Pa. 95

155 A 299

Halpert v. Earnshaw

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 27, 1931

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1931-04-27

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Decided 1931-04-27

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Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1960

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Per Curiam,

¶1 Plaintiff appeals from the refusal of the court below to take off a nonsuit entered in his action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained when struck by defendant’s automobile.

¶2 During the noon hour on October 18, 1928, plaintiff, who had been conversing with a friend on the northeast corner of Broad and Vine Streets, Philadelphia, seeing the traffic officer change the signal light and open pedestrian traffic across Broad Street, started to cross that street, a two-way thoroughfare, and was struck by defendant’s automobile, which made a right-hand turn from Vine Street into Broad Street, as plaintiff took the *97 first step from the sidewalk into the cartway. The non-suit was based on plaintiff’s contributory negligence in failing to observe the moving car coming from Vine Street and practically on him at the time he stepped from the sidewalk. Plaintiff’s own uncontradicted testimony establishes the fact that had he looked before stepping from a place of safety into the roadway he must have seen the approaching automobile. This he failed to do. We find no abuse of discretion in the refusal of the court below to take off the nonsuit.

¶3 The order of the court below is affirmed.

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