Crooks v. Rust

Citations

• 119 Wash. 154
• 205 P. 419
• 1922 Wash. LEXIS 781

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations (443, 469) — Streets—Obstructions— Contributory Negligence oe Person Injured. It cannot be said that an auto driver was guilty of contributory negligence, as a matter of law, in driving in the night-time between two red lights thirty feet apart, on the principal thoroughfare of a large city, and striking the end of a derrick pole extending from a truck parked at the curb for unloading where a building was under construction, it appearing that he did not see the pole, which was unlighted and extended to the center of the street four feet above the surface.</p>