Cooper v. Gallaher

November 19, 1952, John Gallaher and R. J. Gallaher, doing business as Gallaher Brothers Construction, were engaged in constructing a pipe line, about two and a half miles north of East Wenatchee, along state highway No. 2, a two-lane highway, for the East Wen-atchee Water Company. They had two power shovels in operation, of a type which are mounted on trucks. The shovels were operating at either end of a two-mile stretch of the highway, which ran north and south. At the north and south limits, caution signs were placed a few hundred feet from each shovel. The shovel at the south end was…