Hazen v. Rockefeller

Defendant appeals from a judgment for plaintiff, in the amount of $1,704, rendered by the trial court sitting without a jury.

On July 25, 1939, plaintiff was in the employ of the United States government as customs inspector at Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. At about noon on that date defendant, a college student, accompanied by his younger brother, crossed the Saint Mary’s river on the ferry boat from Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada. He drove his practically new four-door Buick sedan, which was the last car off the ferry, into the enclosed yard or compound of the customs service. There…