Blasick v. City of Yakima

This is a personal injury action involving a fall by Anna Blasick on an alley crosswalk in the city of Yakima. From a judgment on the verdict favorable to Mrs. Blasick the city appeals, urging twenty-six assignments of error.

This appeal poses the usual questions of whether the city was negligent in its maintenance of the crosswalk and whether the pedestrian was guilty of contributory negligence. The most unusual question presented' is the propriety of the instruction under which the plaintiff was entitled to recover if she had proved that the city’s negligence “proximately caused or…