Grigsby & Co. v. Bratton

This cause was tried by the circuit judge, without the intervention of a jury, and his findings of fact were reduced to writing pursuant to the request of defendant below, Thomas Grigsby, who, as sole owner, conducted a drug store in Lebanon under the name style of Grigsby & Co.

From this finding it appears that plaintiff’s (Brat-ton’s) automobile was by his direction taken by his son, Clyde Bratton, aged about seventeen years, to the defendant’s drug store to be replenished with gasoline. The machine was driven to a point in the street in front of the store at or about dark. Young Bratton…