Zukowsky v. Brown

REVIEW GRANTED BY SUPREME COURT.

Petrie, J.

This is a tort action instituted by Clement and Crystal Zukowsky, husband and wife, against George and Marilyn Brown, husband and wife, to recover damages allegedly sustained by plaintiff wife on June 19, 1966, when a helm seat on which she was sitting collapsed while she was a guest passenger aboard defendant’s motorboat cruising in navigable waters in Puget Sound.

Plaintiffs have appealed from a judgment based upon a general verdict of a jury in favor of defendants. Plaintiff husband, Clement Zukowsky, died subsequent to filing the appeal; and…