Lawrence v. Hayes

“ 'One riding by invitation and gratuitously in another’s automobile cannot recover for injuries caused by the other’s negligence in driving, unless it amounted to gross negligence.’ Epps v. Parrish, 26 Ga. App. 399 (106 S. E. 297); Harris v. Reid, 30 Ga. App. 187 (117 S. E. 266); Peavy v. Peavy, 36 Ga. App. 202 (136 S. E. 96). ‘In general, slight diligence is that degree of care which every man of common sense, howsoever inattentive he may be, exercises under the same or similar circumstances. Applied to the preservation of property, slight diligence means that care which every man of common…