WITHERS v. STIMMEL

No. 16080.

363 S.W.2d 144 (1962)

Donald WITHERS, Appellant, v. David Theron STIMMEL, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

Rehearing Denied December 14, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thompson Knight, Wright & Simmons, Pinkney Grissom, Timothy E. Kelley and John A. Gilliam, Dallas, for appellant.

Geary, Hamilton, Brice & Lewis and Ray Besing, Dallas, for appellee.


DIXON, Chief Justice.

This appeal calls on us to construe the Guest Statute of another State. Ch. 95½ Sec. 9-201 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Illinois (1957).1

The Illinois Statute, unlike most Guest Statutes, expressly includes persons engaged in a joint enterprise. In other words the Statute denies recovery to an injured person while engaged in a joint enterprise with the owner or driver of an automobile, unless...

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