Case Name: Walters D. NAPOWSA, Appellant, v. Thomas Earl LINVILLE, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1965-03-10
Citations: 172 So. 2d 623
Docket Number: No. 5120
Parties: Walters D. NAPOWSA, Appellant, v. Thomas Earl LINVILLE, Appellee.
Judges: ALLEN, Acting C. J., and SHANNON and WHITE, TJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 172
Pages: 623–624

Head Matter:
Walters D. NAPOWSA, Appellant, v. Thomas Earl LINVILLE, Appellee.
No. 5120.
District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District
March 10, 1965.
Michael B. Piper, of. Harris, Barrett, Dew & Sieber, St. Petersburg, for appellant
Ross H. Stan ton, Jr., of Mann, Harrison, Mann & Rowe, St. Petersburg, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Walters D. Napowsa, who was plaintiff below, appeals from a jury verdict for the defendant in a guest-passenger personal injury case.
The plaintiff was a passenger m a motor vehicle owned and operated by the defendant Sometime after 11:30 P. M., on March 10, 1963, the plaintiff and defendant entered a drive-in theatre, which had a single driveway about 12S yards in length. This drive-way serves as entrance and exit to the drive-in theatre and intersects with a county road, but does not extend beyond the county road. As the plaintiff and defendant left the theatre, the car crossed the county road and ended up in a ditch, resulting in injury to the plaintiff.
The issues in the case below were gross negligence of the defendant, and assumption of risk and contributory negligence of the plaintiff.
We have studied the evidence in this case and the excellent briefs of the parties and conclude that this was purely a jury question, which was resolved in favor of the defendant-appellee, Linville.
Finding no reversible error in the record, we affirm the lower court.
Affirmed.
ALLEN, Acting C. J., and SHANNON and WHITE, TJ., concur.