McEvilla v. Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co.

Citations

• 95 Wash. 657
• 164 P. 193
• 1917 Wash. LEXIS 839

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Use of Streets — Automobiles — Collision — Contributory Negligence — Evidence — Sufficiency. The driver of an automobile, in collision with a street car, is guilty of contributory negligence, as a matter of law, where he undertook to cross the street car tracks going at a speed of six or seven miles an hour, when, had he looked when he was eight or ten feet from the tracks, he could have seen a street car approaching on a down grade at a speed of fifteen or twenty miles an hour and not more than thirty feet distant, so that an attempt to cross in front of the car was almost certain to result in a collision.</p>