Bailey v. Fredericksburg Produce Assn.

The plaintiff, aged about 63 years at the time of the trial in December 1939, had operated a general store and gas and oil station at Williamstown for over 30 years. Daniel Garey, a farmer boy about 23 years old, at different times had driven a truck for plaintiff. About 1:15 o’clock in the afternoon of November 10, 1938, the plaintiff and Garey left the plaintiff’s store to drive to Waterloo, in the plaintiff’s Pontiac coupe. Arriving in Waterloo each of them went about their separate errands, after agreeing to meet at 4:30 o’clock that afternoon at the street corner near the Paramount…