Burns v. Coast Auto Lines

' BEAN, J.

The defendant assigns that the circuit court erred in refusing to give the following instruction for which timely request was made by defendant:

“I instruct you that a passenger in an automobile must act as a reasonably prudent person under the circumstances in looking out for his own safety. If a passenger in an automobile knows, or reasonably ought to know, that the vehicle is being driven faster than is permitted by law, and if, realizing the situation, he fails to make any protest or to give any warning to the driver in thus operating such automobile in violation of law, then the…