Phillips v. Tooele City Corporation

CALLISTER, Chief Justice:

Plaintiffs initiated this action to recover property damages, which were incurred when their jointly owned automobile collided in an intersection with a garbage truck operated by defendant’s agent in Tooele, Utah. The plaintiffs’ vehicle was being operated by Ruby Phillips’ sixteen-year-old married daughter, Phyllis Perkins, pursuant to permission granted by her mother. Plaintiff Luke Phillips was not the father of said driver and had never granted her permission to operate the vehicle. Mr. Phillips was at work at the time of the incident. The jointly owned automobile…