Larson v. City of Seattle

On March 21, 1920, about ten o’clock p. m., Henry N. Hendrickson, John B. Swanson, and *76Gus E. Larson were riding in a Cadillac roadster on the winding streets in the city of Seattle situated on the hillside approaching Lake Washington from the west. The car had but one seat and Larson sat in Swanson’s lap, while Hendrickson drove. None of the men had had much experience with automobiles and none of them knew the country where they were driving. The car was a second-hand one which had been left with Swanson and Hendrickson for sale, they being in the garage business, and they were trying it…