Ruth M. Couch v. Margaret Rose Donahue

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

A reversal is sought in this appeal because of the trial court’s instructions to the jury on the effect of a violation of a traffic ordinance. Alabama law controls the case.

Mrs. Ruth Couch sued Miss Margaret Donahue for damages for personal injuries she received when the defendant ran her automobile into the rear end of the automobile in which the plaintiff was riding. Mrs. Couch and her husband, who was driving their car, were traveling north on U. S. Highway 231, about ten miles north of Pell City, St. Clair County, Alabama. Donahue, driving her car, was following…