Austin v. Austin

On the trial the plaintiff offered the adverse examination of the defendant. The following is his story in material substance: At the time of the accident, August 7, 1957, the defendant was a Staff Sergeant in the Marine Corps, stationed at Corps Headquarters, Washington, D. C. During “off hours” for five or six days each week for about two years he worked at a filling station, servicing automobiles. “My work in that filling station included putting brake fluid in cars from time to time; . . . My work did not include looking at the pipes that lead from the master cylinder to see if there…