O'Rourke v. MacAllister

The plaintiffs seek recovery for injuries sustained by them as guests in an automobile owned and operated by the defendant. The defendant drove his compact-type foreign car from a parking space adjacent to a restaurant known as Maguire’s Lounge in Quincy, where he and the plaintiffs had attended a prenuptial party, onto a street where he *778turned right and accelerated his ear to approximately thirty miles an hour toward an intersecting street a hundred yards away. He was half facing toward, and conversing with, one of the plaintiffs to his right when the car headed for a pole. He was told to…