Conway v. O'Brien

Petitioner, a citizen of New Hampshire, was injured when the respondent’s car, in which she was a passenger, collided with another on a country road in Vermont. Diversity of citizenship gave jurisdiction to the District Court and petitioner recovered a verdict under the Vermont guest occupant law, 1 which required her to prove gross negligence on the part of the respondent. The Circuit Court of Appeals, however, considering the evidence of gross negligence insufficient to go to the jury, reversed and dismissed the complaint. 2 We granted certiorari to examine whether there had been sufficient…