Campbell v. Washington

CARROLL, DONALD K., Acting Chief Judge.

The defendants in an automobile-pedestrian negligence action have appealed from a final judgment for the plaintiffs by the Court of Record for Escambia County, based upon a jury verdict.

The principal question presented for our determination in this appeal is whether the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury as to the minor plaintiff’s contributory negligence pursuant to the law of Alabama.

*341Briefly stated, the evidence at the trial established that on the date in question the defendant Raymond Campbell, an 18-year-old boy, was driving the…