Jackson v. Edwards

Chapter 18033, adopted in 1937, known as “the guest statute,” affects purely substantive rights and not procedure. It limits the right of a guest passenger to recover damages against the owner or operator of a motor vehicle to cases where the injuries sustained shall have been caused by “the gross negligence or wilful and wanton misconduct” of such owner or operator.

The first case in which this Court construed the meaning of this statute was O’Reilly v. Sattler, 193 So. 817, handed down in February of this year. This case will be discussed later.

In the more recent case of Winthrop v.…