Berent v. Virginia Electric & Power Co.

Plaintiff instituted his action against the Virginia Electric and Power Company, seeking to recover damages for personal injuries to himself and damage to his automobile as the result of a collision with a street car of the company.

The street car was running south along Hampton boulevard, while the automobile, driven by the plaintiff, had proceeded along Hampton boulevard in a northerly direction, so that the vehicles were meeting. The plaintiff saw the approaching street car half a block distant, saw that it was moving rapidly, but paid no further attention to it, and without again looking…