Masterson v. Leonard

Citations

• 116 Wash. 551
• 200 P. 320
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 981

Syllabus

<p>Negligence (23)—Imputed Negligence — Rider op Bicycle. Where two hoys engaged in the joint enterprise of covering a newspaper route which belonged to one of them, but in which he was sometimes assisted by the other, were both riding the same bicycle, the owner on the cross-bar and his friend in the seat and controlling its guidance, the negligence of the latter in colliding with an automobile while coasting down a street is attributable to the other.</p> <p>Trial (99)-—Instructions—Requests por Specific Instructions. An instruction that the plaintiff must prove that “the defendant was negligent as charged in this complaint,” should not be deemed erroneous, in view of the fact that all acts of negligence were pleaded in one paragraph, and there were no requested instructions asking specific charges upon the different acts of negligence, viewed separately.</p>