Sharpless v. Blackmore

Under tbeir contract with Skagit county, defendant copartners were repairing a portion of tbe bigbway between Mount Vernon and Anacortes. While lawfully traveling easterly on that bigbway about nine p. m., August 27, 1933, plaintiff ran his automobile into a ditch on the north side of the highway to avoid a collision with an unlighted barricade erected on the south side of the highway by the defendant contractors.

Plaintiff instituted this action against the copart-ners to recover for personal injuries and property damage alleged to have been sustained as a result of that accident. Trial of…