Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Gorman

FOSTER, Justice.

This is an action at law for personal injuries occasioned by being run against by a boy riding a bicycle in a one way street in Mobile. He was traveling in the wrong direction in violation of a city ordinance. The defendant here makes no contention but that he' thereby wrongfully caused the injury. • .

The sole controversy on the right to recover, as contended in appellant’s brief, was whether the boy was acting in the line and scope of his authority.

The evidence for plaintiff on that issue tended to show that at the time of the accident, about 4 P. M., he was wearing a Western…