Smith v. Kent

Plaintiff appeals a judgment on a jury verdict for defendants. The controlling assignment of error concerns the court’s refusal to grant a new trial based on a claimed material false answer to a question asked by plaintiff’s attorney of a prospective juror during voir dire examination of the jury.

The facts here material are these: Plaintiff, a 20-year-old single woman from California, while vacationing in Washington, was riding as a passenger in the right front seat of a Volvo sports car. While so riding, she was struck by a rock crashing through the windshield. As a result she sustained…