Davis v. Riggle

CARROLL, CHAS., Chief Judge.

Appellants, who were plaintiffs in the civil court of record, have appealed from an adverse judgment entered on a directed verdict for the defendant.

*601A truck, owned by the appellant Davis, and driven by his agent Brown, was being used to transport 1,500 gallons of milk belonging to the appellant Davis Dairy Farms, Inc. Some lug bolts securing the right rear wheel became sheared. The appellee-de-fendant Riggle responded to a call for a wrecker, and undertook, as an independent contractor, to return the loaded milk truck to the dairy.

Riggle backed his wrecker vehicle…