Swengil v. Martin

Chappell, District Judge.

The plaintiff,, appellee herein, recovered a judgment against the defendant, appellant herein, for personal injuries sustained in an automobile accident while a guest of defendant in his car then driven by him. Defendant appeals, relying, for reversal, upon the propositions that the trial court erred in overruling defendant’s motion for a directed verdict and in the giving of certain instructions upon its own motion and the refusal to give certain instructions requested by defendant.

The evidence, when considered most favorably for the plaintiff, discloses that on…