Nielsen v. Kohlstedt

— Plaintiff, while riding in a car owned and operated by defendant Virgil Dean Hutchinson, sustained injuries as a result of an intersection collision with a car owned and operated by defendant Albert Henry Kohlstedt. Plaintiff alleged he was a nongratuitous passenger and not a guest in the Hutchinson vehicle. The trial court overruled Hutchinson’s motions for directed verdict made at the close of plaintiff’s evidence and renewed at the close of all the evidence. The ease against each defendant was submitted to the jury on the necessary elements of a negligence case. After overruling…