Burgess v. Holder

Plaintiff recovered a judgment for $10,000 against defendant. The damages "were awarded .by a jury for her injuries in an automobile accident resulting from defendant’s negligent .driving of the car in which she was riding with him and his wife to their mutual place of employment.: In that action plaintiff’s declaration met the guest passenger issue by alleging that on the day of the accident and the days preceding she “had been a passenger paying a stipulated sum to the defendant.” The pretrial statement included this phrase, “It is conceded that the woman plaintiff paid the defendant' a…