Clark v. Reising

This is an action for $20,000 damages for personal injuries which plaintiff sustained while riding as a guest in defendant’s automobile. Judgment was for defendant and plaintiff has appealed. The evidence shows- that on the 9th day of September, 1933, plaintiff met the defendant, a friend of seven years, and after spending the afternoon together they drove in defendant’s automobile to a dance pavilion on the city road in St. Louis County, where they remained until about one o’clock the following morning, drinking several glasses of beer and watching the dancing. When they left there defendant…