Braden v. Rees

Defendants in this automobile accident case appeal from an order granting a new trial for failure to give one of plaintiffs’ proposed instructions.

Plaintiffs’ automobile, being driven by plaintiffs’ son Bob Braden, with his mother as a passenger, was traveling east on Branch Road, an arterial highway in Yakima County. Simultaneously approaching Branch Road, traveling south on Barkes Road, was a pickup truck being driven by defendant Howard Rees, an employee of defendant Yakima Implement Company. Both drivers were familiar with the intersection, knew Rees was required to stop at Branch Road…