Eichner v. Dorsten

This is a host-guest case which raises the question of whether there was evidence from which a jury could find that the host (the defendant, Sharon L. Dorsten) was grossly negligent.

She was attempting to cross U. S. Highway No. 10, the most-traveled, east-west highway in the state, driving a Chevrolet station wagon in which she had twenty-two girls (16-17 years of age) as passengers. She was proceeding north, across the highway, within the town of Issaquah. There were stop signs on the northerly and southerly boundaries of U. S. Highway No. 10, facing all north-south traffic; and a…