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BURKE v. PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING CO. OF YAKIMA

No. 36770.

64 Wn.2d 244 (1964)

391 P.2d 194

HOWARD O. BURKE, as Administrator, Appellant, v. PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF YAKIMA et al., Respondents.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department One.

April 16, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Zane B. Johnson, Gavin, Robinson, Kendrick & Redman, and Stanley S. Pratt, for appellant.

Elvidge, Watt, Veblen & Tewell, for respondents.

ROSELLINI, J.

The plaintiff's wife was killed when the automobile in which she was a passenger, driven by the plaintiff, collided with a pickup truck driven by an employee of the defendant corporation (hereafter referred to as the defendant). The pickup truck, which was approaching in the westbound lane of traffic on State Highway 3-A, near Toppenish, Washington, "jumped" suddenly into the plaintiff's eastbound lane of traffic, directly in his path. The driver of...

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