Adair v. Newkirk

The defendants have appealed from an adverse judgment in the sum of $3,000, awarded by the trial court as damages for personal injuries received by the plaintiff in an automobile accident.

No formal assignments of error are made, but from appellants’ brief and argument it clearly appears that reversal is sought on two grounds.

First, it is contended that respondent was not a guest or invitee in appellants’ car at the time of the accident; and second, that the appellant husband, the driver of the car, was not guilty of gross negligence such as would create a liability under the rule of Heiman v.…