Hancock v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co.

The majority opinion holds that Martha Hancock was a passenger or guest in the car and that the well settled rule of law applicable to her is, where a passenger is in a private vehicle by invitation and is exercising no control over the driver, and is injured through the combined negligence of the driver and a third person, the negligence of such driver cannot be imputable to the passenger. If precluded from recovery it must be because of his own independent negligence. Virginia Railway and Power Company v. Gorsuch, 120 Va. 655, 91 S. E. 632, Ann. Cas. 1918B, 838; Virginian Railway Company v.…