Jessop v. Werner Transportation Co.

This appeal arises from the overruling of a motion for new trial. The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of defendant-appellee in a negligence action for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff-appellant while a guest passenger in an automobile.

The facts from the record before us may be summarized as follows:

Appellant was a guest passenger in a vehicle being driven by her son in an easterly direction on U. S. Highway No. 30 in the left-hand passing lane of a four-lane divided highway. Appellee’s employee, Nyle W. Jurczewsky, was operating a semi-tractor and trailer in the same…