Peterson v. Pallis

Citations

• 103 Wash. 180
• 173 P. 1021
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 1025

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Use op Streets — Actions por Negli-1 gence — Pleading. In an action for personal injuries sustained in a collision with an automobile, a complaint, alleging that defendant was driving at an unlawful speed and pleading an ordinance fixing the speed limit at twenty miles an hour, is good as against a motion to strike or make more definite and certain; Rem. Code, § 291, providing that the court shall take judicial notice of an ordinance so pleaded.</p> <p>Same — Use op Streets — Actions por Negligence — Instructions. In an action for personal injuries sustained in a collision with an automobile, it is error to instruct that the defendant would be liable if it was found that'he was driving on the wrong side of the street, where he was on the wrong side to avoid automobiles parked on the right side, and since it was not negligence per se to drive on the wrong side.</p>