FOOTE v. GRANT

No. 34733.

55 Wn.2d 797 (1960)

350 P.2d 870

DALLAS W. FOOTE et al., Appellants, v. J.F. GRANT, Respondent. DALLAS L. FOOTE et al., Appellants, v. J.F. GRANT, Respondent.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

March 24, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E.K. Murray & E.M. Murray and H. Frank Stubbs, for appellants.

Rosling, Williams, Lanza & Kastner and Joseph J. Lanza, for respondent.


HILL, J.

We are concerned with the applicability of the rule of respondeat superior.

The appellants, Dallas W. Foote and Dora Foote, his wife, and Dallas L. Foote and Mazie W. Foote, his wife, sustained personal injuries when the automobile in which they were riding was hit head-on by an automobile belonging to the respondent, J.F. Grant, which was being driven on its wrong side of the road by Oscar John Wernegreen or his sister. Wernegreen had possession...

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