Skrabanek v. Ritter

O’QUINN, Justice.

This is a suit for personal injury involving application of the Texas automobile guest statute. The question is whether the statute applies to accidents occurring entirely on private property and not on a public highway.

Appellant Doris Ann Skrabanek and her husband in November, 1963, were guests of appellee Jack Ritter, Sr., and wife as the party of four set out on a hunting trip. They entered appellee’s motor vehicle, an enclosed Jeepster, parked in a covered carport adjacent to quarters occupied by ap-pellee and his wife in a motor hotel at Lam-pasas. Appellee was the…