Wemple ex rel. Dang v. Dahman

Opinion of the Court by

WATANABE, J.

This negligence case arises from an October 23, 1991 accident in which Plaintiff Appellant/Cross-Appellee Jade Wemple (Jade), then seven years old, emerged suddenly from behind a van parked on a privately owned road (also referred to as “the road”) that ran in front of the Summer Villa condominium (the SV), where she was temporarily residing with her grandmother, and was struck and seriously injured by a pick-up truck driven by Defendant-Appellee/Cross-Appellee Dean A. Dahman (Dahman).

Jade, by her next friend, Charles H.Y. Dang, and…