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Automobiles - Guest Statutes - What Constitutes A Guest - Sharing Expenses On A Pleasure Trip, Michigan Law Review
Automobiles - Guest Statutes - What Constitutes A Guest - Sharing Expenses On A Pleasure Trip, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff sued to recover for personal injuries sustained when riding with defendants in the latters' automobile. The parties were on a few days' pleasure trip. It was apparently the tacit and mutual understanding that the expenses of transportation, hotels, etc., would be shared equally. Held, plaintiff was a guest within the meaning of the guest statute, and thus had no right of recovery against the driver or owner for injury resulting from the negligence of the driver. McCann v. Hoffman, (Cal. 1937) 70 P. (2d) 909.
Negligence - Proximate Cause -Train Obstructing Highway - Failure To Warn Of Obstruction - Ice On Highway, Michigan Law Review
Negligence - Proximate Cause -Train Obstructing Highway - Failure To Warn Of Obstruction - Ice On Highway, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Deceased, for whose death an administratrix sued defendant railroad, was a guest in a car which collided with a standing freight car at a highway crossing. The train was unlighted; the crossing unguarded; the visibility poor (as the accident occurred at about nine-thirty in the evening, during a snow storm). The hostdriver did not see the train until he was rather close to it; but he testified that, had it not been for ice concealed under the snow on the road, he could have stopped, after he saw the car on the crossing in time to have avoided a collision. …