Brown v. Porto

Felton, Chief Judge.

The only question in this case is whether the jury was authorized to find that the defendant furnished his daughter with the automobile involved in the collision for her pleasure and convenience so as to bring it into the category of a family-purpose vehicle. We do not think that the evidence authorized such a finding. Touching the question involved, the defendant’s daughter Barbara testified: “I was driving the car without my father’s knowledge at the time. He had forbidden me to drive the car at all. I had driven it four or five times in 1960, with his permission. I…