Haller v. Gross

This action arises under and is based upon the so-called guest statute, being C.R.S. ’53, 13-9-1. Defendant in error, a minor nineteen years old, obtained a judgment. in the sum of $6,492, with interest and costs, against plaintiffs in error, as driver and owner of an automobile in which she was riding as a guest.

Plaintiff in error J. P. Haller, as defendant, was not involved other than as owner of the automobile; he gave his son Clarence, the other defendant, permission to drive the car on the occasion of an accident. The accident occurred about midnight November 9, 1954, on a city street in…