Francis v. Fitzpatrick

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This case is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the appellees as defendants below. The action was in tort for negligence. The sole question presented by the assignment of errors is as to the correctness of an instruction given the jury. Hereinafter the appellant will be referred to as plaintiff and the appellees as defendants.

The plaintiff was injured, it was alleged, while riding as a passenger in a taxicab owned and operated by the defendants as joint adventurers, the taxicab being driven for them by an agent. It was proceeding east on F Street, N. W., and was…