Reynolds v. Congress Taxi Co.

Exceptions overruled. This is an action of tort for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff when the taxi in which she was a passenger was backed into a parked truck at a speed of twenty-five to thirty miles an hour by the operator, the defendant’s employee. The plaintiff, who was two months pregnant at the time, suffered injuries to her abdomen, back, neck and right knee. Within three days she suffered a spontaneous abortion. There was testimony in considerable detail as to her pain and ailments. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, counsel for the defendant, in his opening,…