Court Opinion

ID: 9543030
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:41:29.29486+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:09:35.505107
License: Public Domain

Hill, J.
(concurring)—I am in accord with the majority on the proposition that the wrong measure of damages was applied; I am also in accord that this case warrants the application of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur, and that the instruction thereon was not adequate. I have expressed my views at length on the effect of the application of that doctrine in my dissent in Nopson v. Seattle, 33 Wn. (2d) 772, 207 P. (2d) 674. I there pointed out the propositions which should be kept in mind to make the majority’s quotation from Briglio v. Holt & Jeffery, 85 Wash. 155, 147 Pac. 877, the basis of a proper instruction. I adhere to the views expressed in that dissent.