(DOWNLOAD) "Curtis V. Blacklaw" by Department One Supreme Court of Washington " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Curtis V. Blacklaw
- Author : Department One Supreme Court of Washington
- Release Date : January 17, 1965
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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Most accidents are caused; a few simply happen. We can never know for sure which kind took the life of Vernon Curtis. We do know that when he left his wife, Vivian, and his 14-year-old son, George, that morning of March 20, 1963, to report on the job as leadman for a highway maintenance crew, neither had the slightest reason to doubt that he would return home that night. He died not from the hazards of his work or even from a highway accident, but while standing on a pile of dirt off the highway and from the sudden, unexpected brake failure in an oncoming car. Did the accident just happen? Was the court obliged to declare it an emergency? or, Could the jury rightly decide the issues of negligence on standards of ordinary care without the cautionary emergency instruction?