G. Crabtree v. E. Dingus & T. Salyers

The administrators of the estate of Coshy Mullens recovered a verdict and judgment of $12,000 for her death which resulted from injuries received while riding as a guest in an automobile owned and operated by the' defendant, Grover C. Crabtree. To that judgment this writ of error was awarded.

The decisive question presented by the assignments of error is this: Was the evidence sufficient to convict the defendant of gross negligence?

On the evening of March 6, 1951, Cosby Mullens, a sixty-eight year old woman, accompanied by her husband, David C. Mullens, Henry Sargent and others went to the…