Williams v. Johnson

Plaintiff, while crossing the Pacific Highway near the town of Sumner, in Pierce county,, was struck by the automobile of the defendants and injured. In his action for damages, tried to the court and a jury, he recovered judgment. The defendants appeal.

The facts, as we are able to gather them from the record, are about as follows: Bespondent, leaving a small, restaurant, started to cross the highway. About sixteen feet from the pavement, he looked in both directions, and but one car was in sight — that belonging to the appellants. Respondent’s testimony tends to show that, some forty or fifty…