MacDonald v. Balletti

This is a host and guest case. Two cases were consolidated for the purposes of the trial and appeal. The allegations of negligence are the same in each complaint.

The complaint alleges in each case that respondents invited appellants to ride with respondent Mrs. Balletti in her Graham Paige sedan from Centralia to Olympia, on May 8, 1929. That, after they started from Cen-tralia, it began to rain, and after raining about twenty minutes, and when the pavement was wet and oily, at a point about six miles south of Olympia, when Mrs. Balletti.was driving about thirty-five or forty miles an hour,…