Fair v. Floyd

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

This is a personal injury case. When crossing a street in the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, Loreaine Hendrix Floyd (to whom we shall refer as the plaintiff) was struck by an automobile driven by Alice Marie Fair, the defendant.

The main issues, raised by the pleadings and tried on evidence patently conflicting, were the defendant’s negligence in operating her car and the plaintiff’s contributory negligence in crossing the street. The plaintiff had a verdict and from the judgment that followed the defendant appeals, assigning error in the court’s refusal to charge six of…