Burks v. Green

(After stating the foregoing facts.) This court has held that one who turns oyer to another for his own use an automobile which he knows to be defective, and which the driver does not know to be defective, is liable to the latter for injuries proximately caused by the defective instrumentality. Nash v. Reed, 81 Ga. App. 473 (59 S. E. 2d, 259); McDaniel v. Jones, 58 Ga. App. 495 (199 S. E. 233); Evans v. Carroll, 85 Ga. App. 227 (68 S. E. 2d, 608). See also, to the same effect, Foster v. Farra, 117 Ore. 286 (243 Pac. 778); Jones v. Raney Chevrolet Co., 213 N. C. 775 (197 S. E. 757); 2…