Clinchard v. White

Plaintiff has appealed from an order of the district court which sustained defendant Erma J. Clinchard’s motion for summary judgment and dismissed plaintiff’s cause of action. We reverse.

This appeal involves an interpretation of a portion of the new “guest” statute, Neb. Rev. Stat. § 39-6,191 (Reissue 1984), which became effective August 30, 1981. That section reads as follows:

The owner or operator of a motor vehicle shall not be liable for any damages to any passenger or person related to such owner or operator as spouse or within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity who is riding…