House v. Gibbs

Plaintiff comes on appeal from a directed verdict granted in favor of the defendant. The cause arose when the plaintiff’s decedent rode along in a car with the defendant’s decedent to a founder’s day program at Alabama A & M College in May of 1959. As the car traveled south on US-72 in the State of Alabama, it was involved in a head-on collision in which all the occupants of the car were killed.

The plaintiff’s decedent, at the time of the accident, was president of the Detroit chapter of Alabama A & M College Alumni Association. He had been given $75 from the club’s treasury for expenses on…