McMillian v. Sims

CODY, Justice.

This case involves the question of the liability of the owner of a motor vehicle for injuries sustained by a gratuitous guest, under the provisions of article 6701b, R.S. 1925, as added in 1931, Vernon’s Ann.Civ. St. art. 6701b.

Appellee, plaintiff below, alleged in substance that her husband, Hubert Roy Sims, on May 1, 1934, while returning to Galveston on the Galveston-Houston highway as a gratuitous guest on a truck belonging to appellant McMillian, which was being operated by appellant Merrill and which was filled with a load of gasoline, was burned to death when the gasoline…