Benson v. Anderson

The respondent, Benson, while crossing the interstate bridge extending over the Snake river between the city of Lewiston, Idaho-, and the city of Clarkston, Washington, was injured by an automobile driven by the appellant, Anderson. In the action from which this appeal is prosecuted, there was a verdict of the jury in his favor and a judgment upon the verdict.

The bridge mentioned is some fifteen hundred feet in length and some twenty-eight or thirty feet in width. It is divided into two passageways by a railing extending the full length of the bridge, one of which ways is reserved for…