Eklof v. Waterston

On April 15, 1928, the defendant Bee Hive Anto Service company let for hire to its codefendants, Howard Waterston and Seymour Lee, a sedan automobile and delivered the same to them. While said codefendants were in the possession thereof as bailees, they so negligently operated it that they drove it onto the parking at the corner of Eleventh and Clay streets in the city of Portland and broke off a fire hydrant thereon and ran over and severely injured plaintiff, a pedestrian, who was at the time on the sidewalk at said point. Plaintiff alleged by his amended complaint that at the time he…