Townsend v. Minge

1. “In order for an invited guest in an automobile to recover of the owner and driver of the ear for an injury occasioned by the negligence of the driver, it must be pleaded that such negligence was gross negligence.” Epps v. Parrish, 26 Ga. App. 399 (106 S. E. 297).

2. It being essential to a recovery in the present case that the plaintiff guest should establish gross negligence on the part of the defendant host, *454and the pleaded facts being insufficient to demand the inference of such negligence, although they might perhaps have authorized it, the petition as to such defendant was fatally…