Rich v. Warren

MARTIN, Circuit Judge.

A Major in the United States Army has appealed from a judgment rendered against him in the District Court on the verdict of a jury in a civil action for personal injuries.

While being driven on a public highway by a C.C.C. government employee, officially detailed as chauffeur, a government-owned automobile, in which the Major, on official duty, was riding on the front seat beside the chauffeur, struck and injured a pedestrian in the town of Flat Lick, Knox County, Kentucky.

The District Judge, in his charge to the jury, succinctly stated the basis of the cause of action:…