Felicia Page Davis and Glenn W. Davis v. Phyllis O. Harrod and Dennette Harrod

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Mrs. Davis (a plaintiff in the District Court), a District of Columbia schoolteacher, was a passenger in a car being driven by a fellow schoolteacher, Mrs. Harrod (one of the appellees), from the school at which they worked to a meeting of teachers at another school. While en route an accident occurred, allegedly caused by Mrs. Harrod’s negligence. Mrs. Davis received benefits for her injuries under the Federal Employees Compensation Act (FECA), 5 U.S.C. § 8101 et seq. (Supp. III 1965-67). She also sued Mrs. Harrod and her husband, the owner of the…