Davis v. Pinkerton

On October 2, 1937, shortly after five p. m., Helen Davis, a minor, then not quite eighteen years of age, was struck by an automobile driven by Harold R. Pinkerton while she was attempting to walk or run across Tieton drive, a paved arterial highway, running in a general easterly direction into the city of Yakima. In this action, brought on her behalf by her guardian ad litem, she received a jury verdict. The usual post-trial motions were made and denied, and judgment entered, from which this appeal was taken.

The accident occurred at a point several blocks west of the city limits. At this…