Washington Supreme Court August 3, 1938, No. 27098. Department Two. (Thomas v. Inland Motor Freight)

Millard, J.

Alfred Thomas, a truck driver employed by the defendant, was killed at Springdale, Washington, June 7, 1935, while operating defendant’s freight truck with attached trailer from Spokane to Colville. In attempting to round a sharp right-hand curve in the highway at the south edge of the town of Springdale, about forty miles north of Spokane, he failed to negotiate the curve.