Rumford v. Snider

— This is a case in tort arising out of a head-on collision between a 1946 Packard car and a truck and trailer loaded with steel rails and other steel products, the truck, trailer, and contents weighing about seventy thousand pounds.

The collision occurred at about four o’clock on the morning of November 28, 1946, about eight and one-half miles north of Goldendale on state highway No. 8, Federal 97, commonly known as the Satus Pass road. The damage to the truck and trailer was substantial, although trivial when compared with the damage to the Packard car and its occupants. The car was…