FITCHETT v. BUCHANAN

No. 158-41372-2.

2 Wn. App. 965 (1970)

472 P.2d 623

W.C. FITCHETT et al., Respondents, v. L.L. BUCHANAN et al., Appellants.

The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division Two.

June 29, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth C. Hawkins, for appellants.

Hovis, Cockrill & Roy and Ted Roy, for respondents.


PEARSON, J.

The plaintiffs, Lucille Fitchett and John Berger, were injured while watching automobile races from the grandstand at the Yakima Speed Bowl on August 20, 1966. A collision of two racing cars at the north turn of the oval race track caused a wheel from one of them to become disengaged. The wheel was propelled over a 4-foot rock wall (called a crash wall), then up an incline (some 13 vertical feet in height) which separated the track from the grandstand...

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