Legal Opinion
Mathis v. Ammons
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided December 20, 1996No. 19258-6-IIPublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMorgan, J.
In this auto accident case, Deborah Mathis, the plaintiff, seeks to overturn a jury determination that James Ammons, the defendant, was not negligent. We affirm. .
At about 8:30 a.m. on August 1,1990, Ammons was driving a farm tractor west on Growlers Gulch Road, a narrow two lane road in rural Cowlitz County. The road *413lacked a center line because it had recently been resurfaced.
Ammons was towing a hay rake that extended 18 inches to the left of the tractor’s left rear tire. According to his later testimony, he was keeping the tractor and rake entirely within his lane of travel, and cars…
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