Coerver v. Haab

For a number of months prior to October 15, 1943, the plaintiff Robert A. Coerver and the defendant George F. Haab (who will be referred to hereafter as though they were respectively the sole plaintiff and the sole defendant) were employed at Hanford and lived at Yakima. They entered into an oral arrangement with each other and with three other employees of the Hanford project, who also lived in Yakima, that each of the five would alternate day by day in driving his car from Yakima to Hanford and return, carrying the other four as passengers.

The arrangement provided that if, on any particular…