Balinovic v. Evening Star Newspaper Co.

EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

Appellant Balinovic sued the Evening Star on the theory that its delivery truck, negligently driven by its driver, injured him in a collision. The question is whether the District Court was right in directing a verdict for the defendant because the driver had left his route, and his work of delivering papers, and was chasing a traffic violator at the command of a policeman who jumped on the running board and stayed there.

The accident occurred on June 23, 1933, before the passage of the statute which imposes liability on the owner of a car for the acts of any person…