Raub v. Rowe
Decision Date | 07 July 1938 |
Docket Number | No. 3718.,3718. |
Parties | RAUB v. ROWE. |
Court | Texas Court of Appeals |
Appeal from District Court, Dallas County; Towne Young, Judge.
Action by Mrs. Bertha Raub against Miss Clara Rowe for injuries sustained while riding in an automobile owned and driven by defendant. From a judgment for the defendant, plaintiff appeals.
Affirmed.
Mrs. Bertha Raub, appellant, brought this suit against Miss Clara Rowe to recover damages caused by personal injuries. The injuries were sustained by plaintiff while she was riding in an automobile owned and driven by Miss Rowe. The defendant undertook to pass another vehicle on the highway traveling in the same direction, and while attempting to do so Miss Rowe's car overturned inflicting the injuries complained of. A general demurrer to the petition was sustained. The plaintiff declined to amend and her suit was dismissed. Those portions of the petition material to the consideration of the question presented read as follows:
Allen & Allen, of Dallas, for appellant.
Bromberg, Leftwich, Carrington & Gowan, of Dallas (Benjamin G. Habberton and W. C. Gowan, both of Dallas, of counsel), for appellee.
HIGGINS, Justice (after stating the case as above).
The question which first arises is whether the plaintiff was a guest of the defendant riding in the latter's car without payment for such transportation within the purview of Chapter 225, p. 379, Acts of the Forty-second Legislature,...
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