Beacon Motor Car Co. v. Shadman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, by the corporation which, under a former name, was the defendant in Doyle v. Peerless Motor Car Co., ante, 561, against the daughter of the plaintiff in that action, to recover damages alleged to have resulted from the plaintiff having delivered Doyle’s motor car to his chauffeur upon an order signed by the defendant which was unauthorized by Doyle.
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Tort, by the corporation which, under a former name, was the defendant in Doyle v. Peerless Motor Car Co., ante, 561, against the daughter of the plaintiff in that action, to recover damages alleged to have resulted from the plaintiff having delivered Doyle’s motor car to his chauffeur upon an order signed by the defendant which was unauthorized by Doyle. Writ dated February 2,1915. In the first count of the amended declaration the plaintiff alleged that the defendant on June 30, 1913, converted to her own use an automobile, “being the property of one Alexander Doyle, and then rightfully in…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
It appears that this action was brought after a verdict against the plaintiff as the defendant under a former corporate name in Doyle v. Peerless Motor Car Co., ante, 561. And having been held liable to the owner Doyle for the conversion of a motor car through misdelivery either to his chauffeur or to the defendant his daughter, it now seeks damages for the wrong alleged to have been suffered solely through her unauthorized acts. The jury would have been warranted on her evidence in finding that the written order she gave was for the sole purpose of enabling the chauffeur to obtain the car…
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