Scarborough v. Murray

Deen, Judge.

1. To change the status of a guest passenger in an automobile to that of an invitee there must be an express or implied invitation by the operator for the purpose of conferring some substantial benefit upon the host greater than merely affording him the pleasure of the guest’s company. Nash v. Reed, 81 Ga. App. 473 (2) (59 SE2d 259); McBee v. Williamson, 96 Ga. App. 859 (101 SE2d 910). Where the defendant driver made a social call on the plaintiff and they mutually decided to go for a ride on the beach in the defendant’s automobile, the plaintiff was a guest passenger to whom the…