Jarvis v. Bostic

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appeal from a judgment in the Supreme Court of the District in an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by appellee while a passenger in appellant’s automobile.

It was alleged in the declaration, and the evidence tended to sustain the allegation, that appellant’s chauffeur was driving the automobile at such an excessive rate of speed that in order to avoid collision with the car ahead, which was crossing an intersection, he applied the brakes so suddenly that the car skidded and went over the side of the highway embankment.

Appellant offered a práyer to the…