Sadler v. Draper

This was an action brought by Paul Draper for damages for personal injuries sustained from being struck by a Ford automobile, owned by E. B. Sadler, in charge of his employee Charles Foxall, and driven by Malcolm Crenshaw. Suit was brought against all three of them, Sadler died, and the case was revived against his administratrix, Mrs. Marie J. Sadler.1

Sadler, doing business as Sadler Motor Company, was operating in east Nashville a used car lot, or an open lot where he kept and dealt in used cars. Foxall and Crenshaw, colored men, lived in the neighborhood of this lot, and Foxall was…