Saunders Drive-It-Yourself Co. v. Walker

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Reversing.

The Saunders Drive-It-Yourself Company operates a garage in Louisville at which it hires out its automobiles to persons who drive the cars themselves. On May 15,1923, it hired a car to one Carl Webb, and while Clarence E. Walker was driving home' in his automobile in a westerly direction on Oak street, Webb, 'driving the car which he had hired, was driving eastward, and in passing a truck his car, which was running rapidly, skidded on the wet street and ran into Walker’s car, badly damag-' ing it. Walker .brought this suit to recover the…