Howitt v. Hopkins

The action is for negligence. On April 9, 1923, at about one-thirty p. m., plaintiff’s intestate, a girl of thirteen, was struck by an automobile, owned and driven at the time by defendant Hopkins, while he was on his way from Schenectady to Fonda, N. Y., to demonstrate or sell an adding machine, which he had, of the defendant company, and intestate received injuries which resulted in her death. The verdict was against both defendants, against Hopkins as the cause and against the company on the finding that Hopkins was its servant and engaged in its work at the time. The appeal is by the…