HAYES v. TODD

AUTOMOBILES AND MOTOR VEHICLES, § 153 — instruction in collision case. In action for damages sustained when defendant's automobile ran into rear of plaintiff's parked tractor truck, instructing for plaintiff that an ordinance made it unlawful to drive an automobile in residential area at a speed greater than 25 miles per hour and that if defendant was driving at a greater speed such act was negligence on his part was reversible error, since violation of an ordinance is only prima facie evidence of negligence.

Opinion by JUSTICE WHEAT.

Not to be published in full. Opinion filed February 28, 1949; released for publication March 28, 1949.