Phillips v. Richmond

This is an appeal from a judgment for the defendants dismissing an action arising out of a rear-end automobile collision.

Donald D. Phillips (who will be referred to as appellant) had been waiting in his car for several seconds in the left north-bound lane of an arterial street in Yakima, intending (when approaching south-bound traffic cleared) to make a left turn in mid-block across a double center line, when respondent Richmond, driving her mother’s car, crashed into the rear of appellant’s car. (The defendant, Delta Followwill, is the mother of, and the owner of the automobile driven by,…