Barlow v. Verrill

The plaintiff owns and operates a gasoline station located upon the Daniel Webster Highway in the town of Bedford. Approaching from the south, the road descends a considerable hill, and the plaintiff’s station stands at the foot of the grade. Upon February 2,1932, the defendant Verrill was operating an automobile belonging to the defendant partnership upon the above mentioned highway, and had with him as a passenger an elderly man named Emile Caron who did not “know anything about driving an automobile” and did not “know how to start them or stop them.” At some point south of the plaintiff’s…