Atkins v. Bituminous Casualty Corp.

Eberhardt, Judge.

William Horace Atkins filed suit against D. M. Evans, as the owner of a certain truck, and against James L. Jones, the driver, alleging that Jones had been Evans’ employee, that Evans had entrusted it to him when he knew that Jones was in an intoxicated condition, that the truck was in a defective condition in that its gears could not be changed under stated conditions, that at night Jones had parked the truck on the highway so as to leave the rear end of it blocking plaintiff’s right of way, with no lights thereon and no warning thereof, and that plaintiff had driven his car…