Charles v. Mayor of Baltimore

The 16th of January, 1920, wasi particularly stormy and severe. It snowed in the morning1 and this was followed by rain and sleet. Mrs. Thomasi C. Charles was the owner of a Buick coupe. Her husband was a cigar salesman for a New York factory, his territory extending from Baltimore southward.

According to the declaration filed in this case on the: morning of the day named the automobile, “operated by her' husband at her direction and at her request,” went from Washington, where she and her husband were living, to Camp Humphries and later in the day Mr. Charles ran the machine to Baltimore,…