70 Cal. App. 148 - Towne v. Godeau’s Empirical Analysis

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21 state decisions

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1. ““While nearing and entering the intersection, ordinary care required plaintiff to look to the left for approaching vehicles. Having satisfied himself of the absence of danger from that direction, it was natural for him to look to the right for eastbound vehicles. He had the right to assume that no vehicle would approach him from the left beyond the medial line of the intersecting street. Of course, this does not mean that he had the right to proceed blindly, in reckless disregard of obvious danger, for it was his duty to exercise ordinary care, even though the negligence of another caused the danger. In this connection the court instructed the jury that the plaintiff ‘had a right to assume that any person driving from the south on Eldorado Street and desiring to turn to the left or west on Poplar street would obey the law and rnn beyond the center of the intersection of said streets passing to the right thereof, before making such turn.’ Appellant contends that the effect of this instruction upon the minds of the jurors was ‘that the plaintiff did not and was not required to see that which he could have seen with the exercise of ordinary care.’ There is no merit in the contention.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 91 Cal. App. 129 - Wixon v. Raisch Improvement Co.