Case Name: THE CONSOLIDATED TRACTION COMPANY, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. CLARA ISLEY, DEFENDANT IN ERROR
Court: New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1896-06
Citations: 59 N.J.L. 224
Docket Number: 
Parties: THE CONSOLIDATED TRACTION COMPANY, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. CLARA ISLEY, DEFENDANT IN ERROR.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 59
Pages: 224–225

Head Matter:
THE CONSOLIDATED TRACTION COMPANY, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. CLARA ISLEY, DEFENDANT IN ERROR.
Whenever the question whether a pedestrian using a highway has used ordinary care to avoid a collision with a vehicle is one about which a difference of opinion may reasonably be entertained, the judgment of a jury thereon must, upon error, be a finality.
On error to the Supreme Court.
For the plaintiff in error, Abram Q. Garretson.
For the defendant in error, Warren Dixon.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Garrison, J.
Every substantial assignment of error in this case is disposed of by the decisions of this court in the cases of Newark Passenger Railway Co. v. Block, 26 Vroom 605, and Connelly v. Trenton Passenger Railway Co., 27 Id. 700.
Despite these conclusive declarations of the law with respect to the status of surface roads occupying the highways, cases continue to be tried below and to be argued before this court as if such vehicles had some rights that were, in law, paramount to those of other users of the highways. It ought not to be necessary, in view of these adjudications, to make repeated announcements of the law upon this subject. In the case in hand the sole question was whether a person using the street as the plaintiff was, used that degree of caution that an ordinarily prudent pedestrian would use in view of all the surrounding circumstances.
Inasmuch as this question was one about which a difference of opinion might reasonably be entertained, the decision of the jury must, upon error, be a finality, and the judgment pronounced upon such verdict must be affirmed.
For affirmance — The Chancellor, Chief Justice, Depue, Dixon, Garrison, Gummere, Ludlow, Mague, Van Syckel, Barkalow, Bogert, Dayton, Hendrickson, Nixon. 14.
For reversal—None.