Trosper v. Heffner

This is an action for personal injuries arising out of a rear-end automobile collision occurring in Rich-land, Washington, at about three-thirty p. m. on November 3, 1955.

Mrs. W. G. Trosper, hereinafter referred to as if she were the sole plaintiff, was riding as a guest in the front seat of Mrs. C. W. Shipman’s Chevrolet. The defendants are Philip Heffner, a minor, and his parents, whose joinder was based on the family-car doctrine.

The collision occurred at an intersection. Mrs. Shipman was driving east on Swift boulevard and stopped at the stop sign at George Washington way. The plaintiff’s…