Court Opinion

ID: 9553771
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 19:34:58.322999+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:32:15.769946
License: Public Domain

Hill, J.
(concurring) — I concur in the result. I cannot agree that the plaintiff’s negligence had terminated, which is the theory on which the majority applies the second or “should have seen” phase of the doctrine of last clear chance. I am convinced, however, that the plaintiff’s negligence had culminated in a position of peril for her child from which, by the exercise of reasonable care, the plaintiff could not have extricated him, and from which he could not, at his age, be expected to extricate himself; that is sufficient to make applicable the “should have seen” phase of the doctrine of last clear chance. Patterson v. Krogh (1957), 51 Wn. (2d) 73, 316 P. (2d) 103; Everest v. Riecken (1948), 30 Wn. (2d) 683, 193 P. (2d) 353.