Howard v. Wilburn’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““By the term ‘right-of-way’, is meant the privilege for immediate use of the roadway. You further are instructed that as a part of the law of this case that every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the highway. You are instructed that as a part of the law of this case that between any adjacent intersection at which traffic control signals are in operation, pedestrians shall not cross at any place except in a marked or unmarked crosswalk. The term 'intersection/ as used in this section shall not be construed to include intersections of public alleys with public streets but the term intersection shall be construed to include only intersections of public streets, roadways or highways having a regular or official name, or being more than 20 feet in width.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Frasier v. Pierce