Hullin v. Seattle Taxicab Co.

Citations

• 119 Wash. 311
• 205 P. 403
• 1922 Wash. LEXIS 775

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations (379, 383, 392) — Use of Streets — Mutual Rights at Crossings — Contributory Negligence — Instructions. Under an ordinance giving the right of way to vehicles on the right in the case of simultaneous approach to a street intersection, it is not error to instruct that a vehicle on the right, which admittedly was first to reach the intersection, would have the right of way; and it was not error to refuse an instruction that such driver would be guilty of contributory negligence precluding a recovery if on the wrong side of the street, where it omitted the element that such fact must have contributed to the accident.</p> <p>Appeal (445) — Harmless Error — Argument of Counsel. Error cannot be predicated upon an improper remark by counsel in addressing the jury, which was in answer to an equally improper remark of opposing counsel, where the court immediately instructed the jury to disregard it.</p>