Leber v. King County

Citations

• 69 Wash. 134
• 124 P. 397
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 859

Syllabus

<p>Highways—Negligence—Liability-—Complaint—Sueeiciency. A county is. not required to maintain guard rails along a hillside county road, constructed fifteen feet wide and safe for ordinary travel, where there is no extraordinary condition or unusual hazard, and is therefore not liable for injuries caused by want of a railing, although it is alleged in the complaint that a frightened horse shied, lost his footing and fell eight or ten feet down a “steep incline’and sheer decline and pitfall,” there being no allegation that the bank was perpendicular or vertical.</p>