Earle v. Salt Lake Utah R. Corporation

LARSON, Chief Justice.

By stipulation the cases of the three plaintiffs were consolidated for trial, as all three cases involve the same factual situation, and the same evidence. Upon trial in the District Court of Salt Lake County, judgment against defendants was given in favor of each plaintiff. Defendants appeal.

Plaintiffs, all soldiers stationed at Camp Kearns, were passengers in an automobile driven by another soldier named Larsen. None of the passengers in the car knew one another, and none of them knew the driver. Larsen, driving into Salt Lake picked them up near the gate at Kearns.…