Ruff v. Gazaway

The evidence affirmatively discloses the following: The defendants were engaged in the business of hauling freight by motor trucks. In their employ as a dispatcher of trucks at a terminal depot of the defendants was one Garrison. He was not employed to drive a truck and had nothing to do with operating the defendants’ motor vehicles. On a Saturday morning this servant of the defendants borrowed from one of the defendants a motor truck belonging to them for the express purpose of being used by him on that afternoon for a hunting trip. On the Sunday following, around noon, this servant of the…