# Zukowsky v. Brown

> Washington Supreme Court · September 2, 1971 · 79 Wash. 2d 586

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9793027

## Case

- **Full name:** Clement Zukowsky Et Al., Respondents, v. George Brown Et Al., Petitioners
- **Court:** Washington Supreme Court
- **Decided:** September 2, 1971
- **Citations:** 79 Wash. 2d 586; 488 P.2d 269; 1971 Wash. LEXIS 634
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Hunter
- **Judges:** Neill, Finley, Hunter, Rosellini
- **Cited by:** 62 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- concluding that there was nothing so unreasonable or abnormal in the plaintiff's use of a helm seat of a boat to support a claim of her negligence or prevent the inference of defendant's negligence arising in the first instance

## Opinion text

Hunter, J.
(concurring in the result) — I concur in the result of the majority but disagree with its disposition of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. I am in agreement with the statement of Justice Rosellini in his dissent:
I find it impossible to conceive of the doctrine [res ipsa loquitur] having any value to the jury unless the jury is instructed upon it. "Where certain facts are found by the jury, the law permits it to draw an inference. But, unless the jury is told that if it finds these facts it can draw this inference, the jury itself is left in a quagmire of confusion.
(Footnote omitted.)

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