Campbell v. . R. R.

This was a civil action heard and tried in the municipal court of the city of High Point, before Lewis E. Teague, judge, and a jury, at the April Term, 1930, of said court.

It is an action for actionable negligence brought by plaintiff against defendant. Defendant denied negligence and set up the plea of contributory negligence.

The evidence on the part of plaintiff was to the effect that he was a guest or gratuitous passenger in an Essex coach automobile driven by one W. G. Long. Long and his wife were in the front set, Long at the steering-wheel and his wife beside him, plaintiff in the rear…