Frederick O. Gaither v. Charles R. Myers and American Motorist Insurance Co., a Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that a key left in the tailgate of a station wagon violates a traffic regulation requiring removal of the key from a parked car since key was still “in plain view”
• res ipsa loquitur, being a rule of evidence, is procedural and is governed by the law of the District of Columbia
• res ipsa loquitur, being a rule of evidence, is procedural and is governed by the law of the District of Columbia
• submission of case to jury required when inconsistent and contradictory testimony raises issue of witness credibility
• the District’s “compensatory policy has the greatest relevance to cases when the mishap occurs in the District and when District residents are plaintiffs”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).