Wilcox Ex Rel. Wilcox v. Hilligas

— A verdict has been directed against, plaintiff, a rear seat guest in defendant’s automobile, because of insufficiency of plaintiff’s evidence to make a jury question on reckless operation by defendant driver. Hence this appeal.

Plaintiff is entitled to have the evidence viewed in the light most favorable to him. And if, so viewed, there is substantial evidence from which a jury might reasonably draw an inference of reckless operation, he is entitled to have his case submitted to a jury.

The jury could properly find: On December 11, 1960, defendant Donald Hilligas was driving his father’s car…