Stettler v. Huggins

CARROLL, Judge.

The appellees, the defendants below, entrusted an automobile to one John Felton Dean and authorized him to drive it from Richmond, Virginia, to Miami, where, five or six days later the car was involved in a collision with plaintiffs’ automobile. Plaintiffs sued for damages for personal injuries, and they now appeal from a judgment entered on a directed verdict for the defendants, granted by the trial court for plaintiffs’ failure to show that the single individual (driver) in defendants’ car was the man to whom it had been entrusted. That failure of proof resulted from the…