Sledge v. Law

Hall, Judge.

Essential to the liability of the head of a family under the family purpose automobile doctrine is the fact that *747the head of the family has supplied the vehicle for the use of one or other members of the family. Ferguson v. Gurley, 218 Ga. 276, 280 (127 SE2d 462); Durden v. Maddox, 73 Ga. App. 491 (37 SE2d 219); Studdard v. Turner, 91 Ga. App. 318, 321 (85 SE2d 537). The fact that a mother made financial arrangements and signed notes to enable a minor son to purchase an automobile was held insufficient alone to create liability of the mother. Jenkins v. Bridges, 93 Ga. App. 241…