Shepherd v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

Stukes, Chief Justice.

Respondent recovered verdict and judgment for damages for personal injuries incurred when his automobile, which he was driving, was in collision with appellants’ runaway automobile on the road or street in front of the personal appellants’ home. The location is a residential suburb of Columbia and the “street” is a paved farm-to-market, unlighted road, which is known as Furman Avenue.

The appellant Hall is an employee of the corporate defendant which owned the offending automobile but permitted his and Mrs. Hall’s personal use of it. She had taken her daughter to dancing…