Forgus v. Hodnett

ON APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF ERROR

The Court of Civil Appeals has held that our Guest Statute, Article 6701b. Vernon’s Ann.Tex.Civ.Stat., shields the owner of an automobile from liability for ordinary negligence in the entrustment of a motor vehicle to an operator whose guest is the injured plaintiff. 401 S.W.2d 104. We are in agreement with this conclusion. In the course of its opinion, however, the intermediate court cited Snyder v. Jones, Tex.Civ.App., 392 S.W.2d 504 (wr. ref. n. r. e.), for the holding that “proof of knowledge by the owner that his automobile had a dangerous defect when he…