Babington v. Bogdanovic

Legal theories are like aU of man’s ideas: there are no new ones— only endless variations of old ones. And such is the case here, for it involves the question of “joint venture” — a concept of legal antiquity that has been the subject of myriad appeals here and in other jurisdictions.

Here are the essential facts:

Babington, a young school teacher, his fiancee, her parents, her brother and her sister aU drove to Wisconsin for a four-day vacation. It was agreed that they would use Babington’s car and that the Fishers, his future in-laws, would furnish the gas and oil. After spending three to…