(DOWNLOAD) "Herbold v. Ford Motor Co." by Court Of Appeals Of Kentucky # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Herbold v. Ford Motor Co.
- Author : Court Of Appeals Of Kentucky
- Release Date : January 17, 1949
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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STANLEY, Commissioner. The appeal is from a judgment for the defendant in an action by a pedestrian for personal injuries sustained by being struck by the defendant's automobile in Louisville. Broadway at Ninth is very wide, there being six lanes of traffic. The plaintiff, Mrs. Ethel L. Herbold, started across from the north to the south side of Broadway in the west crosswalk while the traffic control signal light was green. When she reached the center of the street, she was confronted by a crowd of people coming in the opposite direction. It was about five o'clock in the afternoon when the employees in the general offices of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company on the southwest corner were leaving the building. It was drizzling with the appearance of an immediate downpour of rain. Everybody was in a hurry, and Mrs. Herbold was buffeted and obstructed by the crowd. She realized from past experience that the light would probably change to red before she could get all the way across, there being only twenty seconds allowed for a pedestrian to cross this wide street on the green light. When she reached the center of the street, she left the crosswalk, went west diagonally across the fourth traffic lane (from her standpoint) perhaps thirty-five feet, and then went between two stationary automobiles which were waiting in the fifth lane for the light to change. As she came from between the cars she glanced westwardly and, as she says, does not remember having seen any approaching automobile. She regarded her way clear to cross the sixth lane and reach the sidewalk. According to the plaintiff's proof, a small truck being driven by Charles J. Villier, an employee of the defendant, Ford Motor Company, drove up at an excessive rate of speed in the sixth traffic lane and struck her. Her proof tends to show that there was no horn blown or other signal of approach given. Mrs. Herbold suffered severe and permanent injuries.