Nash v. Seaboard Air Line Railway Co.

Louise Nash was a gratuitous passenger or guest in the auto-mobile driven by Sarah Adams. She was not the owner of the car and had no control of it; neither is there evidence that the deceased was engaged in a joint enterprise with the driver or other occupants of the car. Consequently, any negligence on the part of the driver would not be imputed to the deceased. In the light of the facts and circumstances disclosed by the present record, the rule of law, therefore, applicable to the'facts was stated in Earwood v. R. R., 192 N. C., 27, as follows: “Therefore, negligence on the part of the…