Moore v. Roddie
| Decision Date | 28 April 1919 |
| Docket Number | 14770. |
| Citation | 106 Wash. 548,180 P. 879 |
| Court | Washington Supreme Court |
| Parties | MOORE et ux. v. RODDIE. |
Appeal from Superior Court, King County; J. T. Ronald, Judge.
On rehearing. Original decision adhered to.
For former opinion, see 174 P. 648.
Walter S. Fulton, of Seattle, for appellants.
Roberts, Wilson & Skeel, and Farrell, Kane & Stratton, all of Seattle, for respondent.
A petition for rehearing en banc having been granted herein and the case reheared, a majority of the court adheres to the original decision reported in 174 P. 648, reversing the judgment.
The court, however, desires to modify the broad and unqualified statement in the original opinion that 'an automobile is a dangerous instrumentality.' A part of the opinion was unintentionally omitted; the writer intended to say:
'An automobile is a dangerous instrumentality when driven upon the highways in a careless and negligent manner, at least more so than a horse-drawn vehicle'
--followed by the statement as to an owner intrusting it to or leaving it with another, and the quotation from Knust v. Bullock, 59 Wash. 141, 109 P. 329, as to a horse-drawn vehicle.
We are not now disposed to adopt the daring innovation, as a legal principle, that an automobile is, per se, a 'dangerous instrumentality.'
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