Wood v. Meyer

This is a guest passenger case in which the trial court granted defendant’s motion for a judgment notwithstanding a verdict for the plaintiff. The sole question is whether there was any evidence from which a jury could reasonably find that the defendant’s decedent was guilty of gross negligence.

Both parties’ decedents were killed in the accident. The driver of the other car, Miss Jacks, remembers nothing of the accident itself. The evidence of gross negligence, if any, must come from the inferences to be drawn from the scene of the collision. The defendant did not offer any evidence.

The…