Harris v. Plummer

HOOD, Chief Judge.

Appellant was a passenger in an automobile driven by a Mrs. Young and was injured when the Young car was struck in the rear by an automobile operated by appellee. A jury returned a verdict for appellee, and appellant assigns two alleged errors occurring at trial. The first relates to the refusal of the trial court to permit appellant’s counsel to argue to the jury that appellee’s automobile was driven at an excessive speed, and the second relates to the ■court’s charge to the jury on the doctrine ■of assumed risk.

Mrs. Young testified that because of a recent snowfall the…