Tien v. Barkel

This is what is known in our hooks as a guest-passenger case. The plaintiff passenger had verdict and judgment, from which the defendant driver and defendant owner appeal. As in most of ■our opinions construing the act of 1929, * the principal issue is whether the plaintiff has presented evidence upon which the jury with legal propriety found the defendant driver guilty of causally connected “gross negligence or wilful and wanton misconduct.”

Motions having been duly submitted for judgment notwithstanding the jury’s verdict or, in alternative, for new trial, the trial judge prepared and filed…