Buss v. Wachsmith

On the afternoon of September 17, 1935, Carl Buss, with Richard Wachsmith, Jr., the eighteen-year old son of R. Wachsmith and Mrs. Wachsmith, and two other employees, were engaged in hauling fruit from a warehouse on the father’s farm to a freight car standing on a railroad siding on the north side of Fruitvale boulevard, an arterial way running westward out of Yakima.

Fruitvale boulevard has a twenty-foot concrete pavement. Wright avenue, a north and south local unpaved road, intersects the boulevard a few hundred feet east of where the freight car stood. The Wachsmith farm is on Wright…