Lee v. Mitchell Funeral Home Ambulance Service

CROCKETT, Chief Justice:

Defendant Mitchell Funeral Home Ambulance Service appeals from jury verdicts and judgments entered thereon for injuries resulting to plaintiffs Jimmie Russell Lee and Filomena L. Lee in a collision while being transported in defendant’s ambulance.

Defendant asserts that the trial court erred in refusing:(1) to accord defendant the protections of the guest statute as to plaintiff Filomena Lee; 1(2) to instruct on sudden emergency; and(3) to rule as a matter of law that the evidence was insufficient to find the defendant negligent.

On the night of November 23, 1974, Robert…