Yttregard v. Young

Citations

• 77 Wash. 523
• 137 P. 1043
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 937

Syllabus

<p>Highways — Negligent Use — Automobiles—Action for Damages —Instructions. In an action for personal injuries sustained when plaintiff’s horse took fright from defendant’s automobile, consideration of the charges of negligence (1) in running the automobile at an excessive speed, (2) cutting out the muffler, and (3) trying to pass on the wrong side, is not excluded by an instruction to the jury that the only acts of negligence on which there was any evidence are first, on the question whether defendant failed to stop on signal and, second, whether the defendant on first discovering the fright of the horse, failed to act as a reasonably prudent man should have acted, and failed to reduce the speed and failed to use reasonable care etc.</p>