Briggs v. United Fruit & Produce, Inc.

Plaintiff, Bickford Briggs, sued the defendant for damages as the result of injuries which he received when struck by defendant’s truck and trailer, while plaintiff was riding a bicycle along a street in the city of Yakima. At the time of the trial, plaintiff, who is five feet in height and weighs one hundred thirteen pounds, was thirty-seven years of age. At about twelve-thirty o’clock on the morning of Monday, July 22, 1940, plaintiff, who had spent Sunday with friends in Yakima, was riding south along First street south, the main north and south highway toward the southerly part of the…