Boggess v. King County

Although the facts in this case are not in dispute, an exposition of the material facts upon which the case was decided by the judge and jury is in order.

Kang county entered into a written contract with F. G. Bronson and George Theusen, copartners, for labor and materials in the excavation, grading and construction of a county highway known as 35th avenue northeast, just north of the city limits of Seattle, which was at the time a regularly travelled street or public way. A considerable number of people lived in the vicinity of the highway under construction, had regularly used it, and the…