• 2003 - Passenger Not Responsible for Driver’s Fault
  • C-3.84
    • Motor Vehicles
    • Passengers
    • Vicarious Responsibility
    • Tort Liability
  • A passenger is not responsible for the fault, if any, of a driver. [However, a passenger is not relieved from the consequences of the passenger’s own fault, if any.]
    • Billingsley v. McCormick Transfer Co., 228 NW 427(ND 1929)
    • Hurt v. Freeland, 1999 ND 12, 598 NW2d 551
    • Jasper v. Freitag, 145 NW2d 879 (ND 1966)
    • Kelmis v. Cardinal Petroleum Co., 156 NW2d 710 (ND
    • Kunze v. Stang, 191 NW2d 526 (ND 1971
    • Mertz v. Weibe, 180 NW2d 664 (ND 1970)
  • Notes: The bracketed sentence should be added if comparative fault of a passenger is asserted.