Stegman v. Sturtevant & Haley Beef & Supply Co.

Between eight and nine o’clock on the morning of September 30, 1919, in the city of Melrose, an automobile owned by the defendant Sturtevant and Haley Beef and Supply Company (a Massachusetts corporation having a usual place of business in Somerville and in Boston), and operated by one Dole, its travelling salesman, came into collision with an automobile owned and operated by the plaintiff Chase, in whose car the plaintiff Stegman was a passenger. Riding with Dole was a carpenter named Scannell. There was evidence that Dole was negligent and that Stegman and Chase were in the exercise of due…