Downs v. McCampbell

HUGHES, Justice.

This appeal is from an order sustaining a plea of privilege. James Cade Downs, appellant, sued Richard' J. McCampbell, a resident of Jim Hogg County, appellee, for damages resulting from injuries sustained when an automobile, .driven by appellee, collided with a tree by the side of the Bee Cave Road, at a point about four miles from Austin, in Travis County. Appellant alleged that he was, with- others, a gratuitous passenger in the car at the time of the collision, and pleaded that he was a guest within the meaning of Art. 6701b, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes. He alleged…