Atwood v. Crowe & Co.

The plaintiffs’ car, at the time of the collision which caused the damage thereto, August 4th, 1927, was being operated by a salesman named Burke who had been employed by the plaintiffs since June, 1927. During the time he was so employed Burke did not possess an automobile operator’s license, that formerly held by him having been suspended. The plaintiffs did not know and made no inquiry as to whether he was legally licensed to operate motor vehicles, but having seen him operating automobiles as a salesman prior to his employment by them, assumed that he had an operator’s license. The trial…