Court Opinion

ID: 9830120
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:53:44.016448+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:13.272714
License: Public Domain

Reasons for Denying Motion for Rehearing.
The court's charge defined ordinary care as “such care as an ordinarily prudent person would exercise under the same or similar circumstances.” That form of charge has been repeatedly approved by the courts of this state. It is a clear and correct exposition of the rule as applied to the present case. An automobile driver owes his invited *301guest “ordinary care” as defined above. It would have been on the weight of evidence to have included as insisted, the words, “not to increase the danger to one riding by invitation by fast and reckless driving.” East driving or reckless driving, even though not exceeding the statutory limit of speed, may be evidence in a given case which bespeaks failure to exercise “ordinary” or “reasonable care” in the operation of an automobile.