Patterson v. Maher ex rel. Maher

Susan Maher, a minor, through next friend, sued Bill Gene Patterson, also a minor, for some $64,000, general and special *1006damages growing out of personal injuries sustained in a one-car accident occurring while she was a gratuitous guest of defendant at about 10 p. m., August 28, 1966, just east of Casper, Wyoming. Plaintiff at the time of the accident was sixteen and defendant seventeen. The action involves § 31-233, W.S.1957, C.1967, which provides that there shall be no cause of action for damages by a person transported as a guest without payment against an operator “unless such accident…