Legal Opinion

Woods v. Clements

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 15, 1917PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal from the circuit court of Lauderdale county. Hon. W. W. Venable, Judge. On Suggestion of Error, see 74 So. 422.

1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.

We have read and considered the cases cited by the appellee in the suggestion of error which were not contained in the original brief, but we do not think these cases militate against the views expressed in the original opinion. In all of these cases the principle was recognized by the courts that to make a person liable in damages for injury inflicted in the operation of an automobile that the relation of master and servant must exist; and, second, that the car must have been used at the time of the injury in the course of the master’s business. The sons and daughters referred to in the…

2Cited by3 opinions

  1. Myers v. ShipleyCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1922
  2. Dempsey v. FrazierMississippi Supreme Court · 1918
  3. Woods v. FranklinMississippi Supreme Court · 1928

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