Campbell v. Adams

A jury having awarded plaintiff $7,000 damages for injuries sustained by him in an accident which occurred as he was alighting from defendant’s automobile, defendant appeals from the judgment entered upon that verdict and from the trial court’s order denying his motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict.1 Defendant’s contentions on appeal are two-fold, first that the trial court erred in denying defendant’s motion for a nonsuit, which motion was based on the ground that plaintiff’s recovery was barred as a matter of law by the automobile guest statute (Yeh. Code, § 17158) ;2 and second,…