Schalow v. Oakley

On July 4, 1941, at about ten p. m., Mrs. Elnora Schalow was driving a Chevrolet automobile northerly on the Pacific highway at a point about one and one-half miles north of Burlington. In the automobile, as passengers and guests, were Martin Thorson, Paul Thompson, and Mrs. Schalow’s minor daughter. All of the occupants of the car lived in Bellingham and were returning there after visiting relatives in Burlington.

While they were driving north, the respondent, Oakley, a young man twenty-one years of age, was driving south on the same highway. He was en route from Birch Bay, a few miles…