Brown v. Cleveland Tractor Co.

I cannot concur in the opinion of Mr. Justice Weadock.. Defendant is an Ohio corporation, manufacturing and selling tractors. Charles H. Wilt was its service mechanic, employed by it to travel in several States and make needed repairs and adjustments on tractors. Wilt was under orders of the company but could travel by train or his own automobile at his pleasure and, when using his own car, he was allowed seven cents a mile as expense money.

The action is brought for damages resulting from a collision between Wilt’s car, while driven by him on defendant’s business, and plaintiff’s car. Service…