WEATHERHOLZ v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 1564.

109 A.2d 376 (1954)

Roice L. WEATHERHOLZ, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided November 16, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Mitchell Jones, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom Vernon E. West, Corp. Counsel, Chester H. Gray, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel and Harry L. Walker, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., on the brief, for appellee.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.


CAYTON, Chief Judge.

The attention of an officer of the U. S. Park Police was drawn to the sound of an "aeroplane type" muffler on an automobile operated by defendant traveling at an unreasonable speed on Independence Avenue near Seventh Street, S. W. He testified that proceeding on, a short distance east of Fourteenth Street, S. W., defendant turned suddenly to the left across the path of automobiles in the two center lanes; that the officer as well as another motorist...

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