Slobodnjak v. Coyne

The plaintiff brought this action to recover for injuries suffered by being thrown from an automobile in which he was riding as the guest of the defendant. The jury rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiff and the defendant has appealed from the denial of his motion to set that verdict aside. As the accident happened in Massachusetts, the law of that State governs as far as the substantive elements necessary to a recovery are concerned. James v. Von Schuckman, 115 Conn. 490, 493, 162 Atl. 3. By that law, in the absence of a claim of wanton or reckless misconduct, a guest in an automobile…