Pinckard v. Pease

Citations

• 115 Wash. 282
• 197 P. 49

Syllabus

<p>Highways (52, 57) —Use of Highways — Negligent Dbiving of Auto—Evidence—Sufficiency. A driver of an automobile cannot be held liable for injuries to a passenger, a doctor, answering an urgent call, where the car was being driven at a rate of thirty to thirty-five miles an hour on a slippery roadway, with the acquiescence of the passenger, and through a mistake of judgment the driver failed to check his speed in time on approaching a curve leading to a bridge, and the car skidded and crashed through the bridge railing, resulting in injury to the passenger.</p>