Jasper v. Wells

The allegations of negligence and proximate cause having been admitted, as well as the ownership of the car by the defendant Wells, the plaintiff offered evidence only upon the issue of damages and then rested his case in chief without offering any testimony whatever on the issue of agency. The admission that the car was owned by Wells established a prima facie ease of agency under the decisions of this court, to which reference will later be made. Accordingly, the defendant went forward with the evidence and expressly denied that Dake was acting as his agent or was authorized to take the car…