Reeves v. Morgan

The trial judge had charged the jury relative to six laws and ordinances pertinent to the situation. Three of these applied to the defendant and three to the plaintiff. One of these, applying to the plaintiff, was that "no person shall . . . place himself in any . . . roadway in such manner as to impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic.” The trial judge then charged as follows: "Now in this connection, having reference now to the statutes and ordinances I have just alluded to, I charge you that should you find from the evidence in this case that either party violated the law of…