Manhattan for Hire Car Corp. v. O'Connell

The record of a trial that culminated in a verdict and judgment against appellant, Manhattan For Hire Car Corporation, for personal injuries sustained by appellee, Ralph Mason O’Connell, is before us for review.

The accident happened between one and two o’clock p.m., August 23, 1949, when two motor vehicles collided at the intersection at Eighth and Grace streets in the city of Richmond. A stipulation entered into between the parties says that “it was raining hard” when the mishap occurred.

Eighth street, which is 52 feet wide from curb to curb, extends in a northerly and southerly direction,…