Grant v. Knepper

Cardozo, Ch. J.

Defendant sent out his motor truck with a driver and a salesman to deliver merchandise. On the way back the salesman asked to be allowed to run the car, though he was without an operator’s license. Permission being granted, he slipped into the seat behind the wheel while the driver stood upon the running board beside. After going about a mile and a half, the salesman ran the truck into a car which had been parked along the roadway. The truck, after strildng and damaging the car, went on about forty feet till it collided with a telephone pole, which it threw to the ground. The…