Siegler v. Kuhlman

81 Wn.2d 448 (1972)

502 P.2d 1181

MRS. JACOB SIEGLER, Individually and as Administratrix, Petitioner,

v.

AARON L. KUHLMAN et al., Respondents.

No. 41696.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

November 15, 1972.

HALE, J.

Seventeen-year-old Carol J. House died in the flames of a gasoline explosion when her car encountered a pool of thousands of gallons of spilled gasoline. She was driving home from her after-school job in the early evening of November 22, 1967, along Capitol Lake Drive in Olympia; it was dark but dry; her car's headlamps were burning. There was a slight impact with some object, a…