Mayer v. Sheetz

Plaintiff seeks damages from defendant-administrator on account of physical injuries she sustained while riding as a guest in an automobile being operated by defendant’s decedent. The statutory rule is that for such injuries a guest may not recover from his or her host. The only exception, so far as concerns this ease, would be in event the damages were caused by decedent’s reckless operation of the car. Section 5026-bl, Code 1935. Plaintiff alleged there was such reckless operation, but after all her evidence had been introduced the district court held it was not sufficient to warrant…