Carmin v. Port of Seattle

For approximately seven years prior to December, 1939, Julius C. Herbsman had been in the employ of the port of Seattle, a municipal corporation. December 16, 1939, at about six-thirty o’clock in the evening, Mr. Herbsman was driving his automobile in a northerly direction along the east side of Eastlake avenue, an arterial highway, in the city of Seattle. He was approaching the intersection of Eastlake avenue with east Boston street, driving up a 4.9 per cent grade, Eastlake avenue leveling off at the intersection with east Boston street. Eastlake avenue is, at the intersection referred to,…