Richard R. Rayfield v. Forrest Lawrence

STANLEY, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Division, on a jury verdict against the defendant, Richard Rayfield, for personal injuries growing out of a collision between an automobile being operated by the defendant and an automobile being operated by one Thomas J. Briody, Jr., in which the plaintiff, Forrest Lawrence, was a passenger. Another sailor, James D. O’Neil, and a friend of Lawrence, was also a passenger in Briody’s automobile and received serious injuries. O’Neil also brought…