Siegrist Bakery Co. v. Smith

This suit was brought by the Siegrist Bakery Company to recover damages to a delivery truck and its contents sustained in a collision with an automobile, the property of Mrs. Hunter Orr, but driven at the time of the accident by a chauffeur in the general employ of E. Gray Smith. It is conceded that there was negligence in the operation of the autompbile and the controversy is as to whether Mrs. Orr or Smith is liable. The trial judge and the Court of Appeals held that Mrs. Ojrr alone was liable on the theory that the chauffeur was a loaned servant, under her control, when the damage was…