McLamb v. Beasley

Tbe single question presented by the appeal is the sufficiency of the evidence to carry the cases to the jury.

The plaintiffs contended with quite good fortune in the court below that Hood’s use of the truck under the circumstances was such as to warrant the inference that it was being driven to his home for storage or safe keeping during the night; that he was, therefore, about his master’s business at the time of the injury, and that plaintiffs are entitled to recover on the theory of respondeat superior.

It is true the defendant’s bookkeeper is led to speak of Hood’s yard as a storage place…