Blankenship v. King County

The appellant sought in this action to recover for personal injuries received by him from an accident happening while he was driving a team upon a county road in King county. The roadbed at the place of the accident was some twenty-four feet in width and had been macadamized for a width of sixteen feet along its center. The road, so the appellant testified, was traveled throughout its entire width, although the heavy traffic passed over the macadamized portion of the way. At the place of the accident, and for some distance on each side thereof, the road had been graded out from the side of a…