Patterson v. Kates
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
On Motion for Judgment upon Reserved Point Notwithstanding the Verdict.
1Opinion of the Court
J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.
The defendant is the owner of an automobile, which had broken down at Egg Harbor, on the way from Atlantic City to Philadelphia. He instructed his driver to repair the machine and bring it to its destination, and, in obedience to these instructions, the driver started from Egg Harbor, passed through Mt. Ephraim, and reached Gloucester, on the Delaware river, intending to take the ferry at that point for Philadelphia. When he reached Gloucester, he went to a saloon kept by one of his friends, where he met a man named Fernley, who had business at Northmont, a…
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