Sorrell v. White

The plaintiff has sued to recover damages for injuries sustained while riding as a guest in an automobile owned and driven by the defendant. On trial by jury the verdict was in her favor, and the defendant excepted. The-questions presented here arise under exceptions to the denial of the defendant’s motion to direct a verdict and to set aside the verdict and present the question whether the defendant was guilty of wilful negligence as provided in the statute hereinafter quoted.

Prior to the passage of No. 78, Acts of 1929, a person riding gratuitously as the guest of another in the latter’s…