Bell v. Maxwell

Plaintiff was severely injured by the overturning of a practically new Lincoln Capri automobile owned by the defendant James B. Hammond and driven by the defendant Charles K. Maxwell. The defendants filed a joint answer in which they admitted that at the time Maxwell was- driving the automobile with the permission and at the request of Hammond, who was present in the automobile before and at the time it overturned.

Plaintiff’s evidence tends to show these facts: After midnight on 13 September 1953 Fred Teeter, a police officer of the city of Charlotte, went to the intersection of Harris and…