Oberlander v. Cox

The night was stormy, with strong driving winds and heavy rains reducing the visibility for driver and pedestrian alike when the accident happened. It was about 7 p.m., the evening of February 29, 1964; plaintiff had alighted from a bus on Greenwood Avenue in Seattle between 84th and 85th streets, intending to cross Greenwood and walk to a friends house southwest of Greenwood. Before starting across Greenwood, she stopped in briefly at an ice cream store. Then she walked to the southeast corner of 84th and Greenwood, and, looking in both directions and seeing no cars, she stepped off the curb to walk west in the crosswalk across Greenwood.