Pritchett v. Williams

Hall, Judge.

Our courts have held that a parent who furnishes a car to a son for family purposes is responsible for injuries resulting from negligence of a third person whom the son permits to drive, where the son remains in the automobile and retains control, authority and direction over it, and where the automobile is being used in furtherance of the purposes of a family car. Cohen v. Whiteman, 75 Ga. App. 286 (43 SE2d 184); Myrick v. Sievers, 104 Ga. App. 95 (121 SE2d 185); accord Golden v. Medford, 189 Ga. 614 (7 SE2d 236). The decisions adopting the family car doctrine as the law of…