Huntsman Bros., Inc. v. Grocers Baking Co.

These suits grew out of an automobile accident. The salesman of Huntsman Brothers, while driving the company’s car, on the company’s mission, attempted to pass an on-coining car, upon the highway, in the nighttime, and was unable to see a parked truck upon the edge of the highway and, as a consequence, he ran into the truck at the time the two moving ears attempted to pass. The truck was owned and used by the Grocers Baking Company and was under the charge of its driver.

Each company sued the other for damages growing out of the accident, before a justice of the peace. The cases were carried…