Gold v. Portland Lumber Corp.

This is a street intersection case in which the plaintiff seeks to recover from the defendant for property damage and personal injuries received January 4, 1940, in a collision between a one and one-half ton Chevrolet truck driven by the plaintiff’s agent (the plaintiff, however, riding with him) and a lumber truck driven by the defendant’s agent. Neither agency is denied. The plaintiff’s truck was proceeding southerly on Wilmot Street in the City of Portland and the defendant’s, easterly on Lancaster Street. These streets cross at right angles and form an obscured intersection (Sec. 69 [b]…