McGOWAN v. CAMP

34174.

87 Ga. App. 671 (1953)

75 S.E.2d 350

McGOWAN v. CAMP.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided February 28, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erwin, Nix, Birchmore & Epting, for plaintiff in error.

A. M. Kelly, Milner & Stephens, contra.


SUTTON, C. J.

One riding by invitation and gratuitously in another's automobile cannot recover for injury caused by the other's negligence in operating the automobile unless it amounts to gross negligence. Our Code defines gross negligence in these terms: "Slight diligence is that degree of care which every man of common sense, howsoever inattentive he may be, exercises under the same or similar circumstances . . the absence of such care is termed gross negligence...

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