Goodwin v. Goodwin

WILLIS, J., pro tem.

This is an appeal from a judgment for damages entered in favor of a guest on a finding of gross negligence in the operation of an automobile.

On February 12, 1931, in the forenoon, appellant Robert B. Goodwin was driving an automobile, of which appellant Nellie Goodwin was the owner and with her permission, southward on a state highway a few miles south of the city of San Jose. With him as his guest was his uncle, Oscar B. Goodwin, respondent herein. The automobile was being operated on its right side of the road at about twenty-five miles per hour, in a fog which obscured…