Dispeker v. New Southern Hotel Company

This suit was brought in the Chancery Court of Madison County by Mrs. Gertie S. Dispeker against The New Southern Hotel of Jackson, Tennessee, for damages to her automobile caused when its employee, then off-duty, came onto its parking lot, and wrongfully misappropriated complainant’s automobile by driving it away and later wrecking it.

The Chancellor dismissed the suit. The Court of Appeals reversed and decreed in favor of complainant for the value of the automobile, less salvage value. Defendant- has filed in this Court a petition for certiorari.

It appears from the Chancellor’s finding of…