Bruce MacGibbon and Tina MacGibbon v. Godfrey Smalls and Warren Emanuel

OPINION OF THE COURT

ADAMS, Circuit Judge

This appeal arises from a rear-end collision between an automobile driven by plaintiff Bruce MacGibbon and a taxi driven by defendant Warren Emanuel, on January 22, 1968, on a city street in St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands.

The sequence of events which led up to the accident is as follows: A third vehicle, a taxi, driven by defendant Godfrey Smalls, when hailed by a passenger, came to a rolling signaled stop. Defendant Emanuel slammed on his brakes and his taxi came to an unsignaled screeching stop within a foot of Smalls’ taxi. Plaintiff MacGibbon, who…