Clark v. Fotheringham

Citations

• 100 Wash. 12
• 170 P. 323
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 689

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Use oe Streets — Collisions — Ordinances—Law oe Road. An automobile driver going east or west and who turns to the north or south in a street intersection, is not entitled to the full protection of an ordinance giving vehicles going north and south a right of way, if the facts show that he turned in such close proximity to a car approaching from the east or west as to run into it.</p> <p>Same. An ordinance giving a right of way to traffic in one direction will not protect a driver of an automobile where he changes his course at a street intersection which is occupied by another machine in such close proximity that a collision is likely to follow; and in such a case, the obligation on the part of the drivers is mutual and to be resolved under the general law of negligence.</p> <p>Appeal—Review—Findings. Where a case is brought up on the findings alone, the respondent is entitled to the most favorable inferences that can be drawn from them.</p>