Fries v. Brakenridge

This appeal which arises out of a chain automobile collision affords a good example of how not to start a day at the races.

*679On Saturday, April 3, 1965, at approximately 12:30 P.M., Mrs. Charlene L. Fries, appellant and plaintiff below, of Springfield, Virginia, a 42 year old housewife, was operating a Karmann Ghia automobile in a northerly direction on the Baltimore-Washington Expressway. It was a sunny day and the roadway was dry. She was on her way to Laurel race track for a day at the races. At a distance of approximately one-quarter of a mile from the intersection of the…