Winekoff v. Pospisil

Plaintiff’s appeal to the Court of Appeals posed but one question; whether the evidentiary admission during trial of this suit for negligence, of a chart headed “Stopping Distance— Passenger Cars,” constituted reversible error. See the recent annotation, 9 ALR3d 976, “Admissibility in Evidence, in Automobile Negligence Action, of Charts Showing Braking Distance, Reaction Times, Etc.”

The chart was a part of onr Secretary of State’s widely distributed publication, in pamphlet form, entitled “What Every Driver Must Know.” Division 2 ruled that such admission was prejudicial (13 Mich App 293).…