Loeffler v. Crandall’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

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1. ““Where a special tangible benefit to the defendant was the motivating influence for furnishing the transportation, compensation may be said to be given. But it is not given where the main purpose of the trip is the joint pleasure of the participants. The payment of a portion of the expenses as for gas and oil consumed on the trip, is merely incidental and does not constitute the moving influence for the transportation. If we were to assume that the plaintiff, in spite of her previous statements under oath, could establish that she was to share the expenses of the trip, the rule set forth in the decided cases still bars her, as a matter of laio from recovery in this case. This case was one of reciprocal hospitality or pleasure and the plaintiff’s belated attempt to change the entire theory of her trip is unavailing. In the instant case the inducing cause of the transportation was the close friendship of the parties” (our emphasis).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Menze v. Clark

2. “"Speaking of the special tangible benefit which must accrue to the driver of an automobile to take his passenger out of the "Guest" statute, the Supreme Court of California in Druzanich v. Criley, 19 Cal.2d 439 , 122 P.2d 53 [Id., Cal.App.], 107 P.2d 445 , 447, said: `Where a special tangible benefit to the defendant was the motivating influence for furnishing the transportation, compensation may be said to have been given. * * * The payment of a portion of the expense, as for gasoline and oil consumed on the trip, is merely incidental and does not constitute the moving influence for the transportation.'"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mears v. Kovacic