Welch v. Checker Taxi Co.

These cases are actions of tort to recover damages to an automobile owned by the plaintiff Edwin Welch and for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff Ruth C. Welch on November 21,1924, alleged to have been caused *311by a collision at the intersection of Putnam Avenue and Mt. Auburn Street in the city of Cambridge, with a taxicab owned by the defendant. It was agreed there was evidence of liability to be submitted to the jury, if there was sufficient evidence that the driver of the cab was the agent of the defendant and was acting within the scope of his employment at the time of the…