Parrish v. Walsh

This case requires this court to review the doctrine of imputed negligence as announced in Ross v. Burgan, supra. Ross involved an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff when the automobile she owned, driven by her husband, was rammed from behind by defendant’s automobile. This court, in announcing its decision, adopted a rule it considered “fair and reasonable,” holding that, where an owner is the passenger-occupant of his own automobile, a rebuttable presumption or inference arises that he has the control and direction of it, and that the driver is acting as his…