Steinheim v. Nicholas

Eailroad avenue is in the city of Seattle, and runs north and south. It is intersected at right angles by Marion street. About five-thirty p. m., December 17, 1930 — a dark night- — -but not foggy or wet — plaintiff was walking westerly on Marion street across that intersection. An automobile, owned by the city of Seattle and operated by an employee of the city, was proceeding north on Eailroad avenne, through the intersection, at the rate of twenty to twenty-five miles an hour, which exceeded the legal maximum of fifteen miles an hour through intersections. The. plaintiff pedestrian was…