· 8/30/1962
Holmes v. Raffo
Citations
- 374 P.2d 536
- 60 Wash. 2d 421
- 1962 Wash. LEXIS 329
How courts have described this case
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- holding that the court could not condone conditioning recovery on one’s financial ability to hire another automobile because plaintiff would be denied compensation for his inconvenience resulting from the wrongful act of the defendant
- \the right to compensation for loss of use is not dependent upon the owner having hired a substitute automobile\
- “The rule with respect to loss of use of an automobile is that the owner may recover, as general damages, the use value of which he is deprived because of the defendant’s wrongful act.”
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Judges: Hunter
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