McCombs v. Ellsberry

From a judgment for $8000 obtained by Marie McCombs against Walter Fellis and Oliver Ellsberry for personal injuries sustained in an automobile accident, Fellis appeals.

Respondent had occasion to transact some business at the city hall in St. Louis, and appellant offered, purely as an accommodation to respondent for which he received no remuneration, to take respondent in his Essex coach. Appellant was driving his car, with a party seated in the front seat and respondent occupying the rear seat. The accident occurred on the return trip shortly after the noon hour on July 16, 1930, at Spring…