Pennsylvania Rd. Co. v. Townsend

The sole question presented is whether the trial court erred in directing the verdict. It did so for the reason that, in its opinion, plaintiff’s evidence disclosed that he was guilty of violating the city ordinances and that such violation proximately caused his injury.

In the consideration of this case we shall chiefly allude to the evidence of the plaintiff. Plaintiff was the owner of a single-seated Dodge coupe, a six-year old model, which he had purchased some three months before the accident. After midnight on May 12, 1929, in taking his guests home, he loaded the five of them in this…