Fidelity & Guaranty Fire Corp. v. Ratterman

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Richardson

Reversing.

On July 26, 1934, .John A. Ratterman whose place of business was Eighteenth and Date streets, Louisville,. Ky., was the owner of a 1931 Pontiac. On the morning-of that day, Roñe Wilkerson, a colored man, went to Ratterman’s store to obtain the automobile for the purpose of carrying it to his (Wilkerson’s) place of' business at Fifteenth and Oak streets to clean and. simonize it. It had been the custom of Wilkerson to-obtain the automobile in the morning, clean, simonize,. and return it. Ratterman delivered the automobile with, its key to…