Gonzalez v. CURTIS ET UX

The plaintiff, Herman Gronzalez, while riding as a guest in the automobile of the defendants, on July 23, 1954, at about 5:50 o’clock a. m., suffered personal injuries when the automobile, being driven by the defendant Ivan Allen Curtis in an easterly direction on Highway 6 about 34 miles east of Tillamook, Oregon, collided with the rear of a lumber truck traveling in the same direction.

Defendants moved for a directed verdict which was overruled, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Later the trial court granted a motion of the defendants for judgment notwithstanding this…