Court Opinion

ID: 9552826
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 19:17:47.843403+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:29:07.747472
License: Public Domain

*679WADE, Justice
(dissenting).
The prevailing opinion holds that
“according to the authorities, the cause diverting the pedestrian’s attention from a known danger at least must he unexpected and Substantial.”
Applying that test I think this was a jury question. As I read this record plaintiff was alongside the hole in the sidewalk when she first saw 50 or 60 children coming toward her about three or four feet away, and even though they were not all abreast and did not touch or run inte her or prevent her from seeing the hole, fifty or sixty children rushing to see Santa Claus, first observed when, three or four feet away, seems to me to be a sudden and substantial diversion and sufficient from which a jury could reasonably find that she acted as a reasonable prudent person would act under the circumstances. I therefore dissent.