Hiroux v. Baum
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Aeeeae from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Brown county: S. D. HastiNGS, Circuit Judge. Tbe plaintiff was at work sweeping one of tbe streets in tbe city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and was run into and injured by an automobile owned by appellant, John Baum.
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Aeeeae from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Brown county: S. D. HastiNGS, Circuit Judge. Tbe plaintiff was at work sweeping one of tbe streets in tbe city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and was run into and injured by an automobile owned by appellant, John Baum. The appellant purchased tbe automobile a few days before the' time of tbe accident, and bad an understanding with Mr. Lucia, one of the members of the firm from whom the-machine was purchased, that he would instruct the appellant’s son, Cecil Baum, to run it. At the time, of the injury Mr. Lucia and Cecil Baum were out with the machine…
1Opinion of the CourtKebwiN, J.
Tbe plaintiffs theory of the case upon the trial below was that Cecil Baum was the agent or servant • of appellant and therefore the appellant was liable for Cecil’s torts. The jury found for plaintiff upon that issue, and the question arises whether such finding has support in the ¡evidence. It is insisted by appellant that it has not. There is evidence tending to prove that Cecil was seventeen years of age, lived with his father, occasionally worked in his father’s store, but received no compensation for his services; that appellant bought the automobile from Lucia Bros, mainly upon the…
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