AUTOMOBILES -VIOLATION OF PARKING STATUTE

Authors

Michigan Law Review, University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

Defendant, in violation of a statute and ordinance prohibiting parking "within ten feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign, or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway," parked his truck within the prohibited area, thus blocking the sign from the view of the traffic it was intended to warn. A third party, approaching the stop street, being unable to see the sign, proceeded into the intersection without stopping, and struck the car in which plaintiff was a passenger, injuring him. Defendant demurred to the petition on the ground of lack of causal connection. Held, in reversing the lower court which had sustained the demurrer, that the jury could find that defendant's act was the proximate cause of plaintiff's injury. Blessing v. Welding, (Iowa, 1939) 286 N. W. 436.

Recommended Citation

Michigan Law Review, AUTOMOBILES -VIOLATION OF PARKING STATUTE, 38 Mich. L. Rev. 397 (1940).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol38/iss3/10