Colby v. City of Seattle

About midday, September 3, 1923, the respondent was driving his light truck easterly, in intermediate gear, at the rate of twelve miles per hour, over the rough planking of west Alaska street, parallel to the appellant’s street car track. From Thirty-eighth avenue southwest, where the accident happened, there was an unobstructed view to the west for a distance of 1,244 feet. "When fifty feet from the Thirty-eighth avenue intersection, the respondent looked to his left for street cars which might be overtaking him, and saw none within the distance of 150 feet to which his view was limited by…