Roy v. Parker

Ernest Roy, a boy of fifteen, while riding in an automobile of the defendant, received an injury resulting in his death without conscious suffering. This action was brought by his administratrix. The automobile, operated by one of the defendant’s sons, aged seventeen and named Oscar, was being used in his business. The deceased was not in the employ of the defendant. There was a verdict for the plaintiff, and the only exception on which the defendant relies is to the part of the instructions to the jury which relates to the presence of the deceased boy in the automobile.

The evidence as to…