Cook v. Rafferty

The collision out of which these actions arose occurred on the Pacific highway between Tacoma and Olympia, about a mile and a half south of the entrance to Fort Lewis. Dixon Murphy, plaintiff in one of the suits, was driving his father’s car south toward Olympia. Mrs. Wilma Whitner, one of the defendants, was driving her father’s car north toward Seattle. There are two parallel strips of pavement, each eighteen feet wide, with a four foot gravel or dirt strip between them. The pavement was covered with a thin coating of ice, and the Whitner car skidded from the east strip of pavement across…