Ray's Checker Taxi, Inc. v. Blaisdell

This is an action of tort growing out of a collision between the plaintiff’s taxicab and a truck of the defendants. The judge of the District Court found for the plaintiff. The only question for decision is whether the judge erred ,in denying several requests presented by the defendants which in effect asked him to rule that the driver of the plaintiff’s taxicab was not in the exercise of due care. No contention is made that the driver of the defendants’ truck was not negligent.

The facts found by the judge, together with those not disputed, may be summarized as follows: On December 14, 1942,…