Beatty v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 124, Oct. T., 1918, by plaintiffs, from judgment of O. P. Allegheny Co., Jan. T., 1917, No. 542, on verdict for defendant in the cáse of Edward Beatty and Irene Beatty, his wife, Appellants, v. Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, a corporation. Action in trespass by husband and wife to recover damages for personal injuries sustained in a collision with an automobile owned by defendant and driven by defendant’s employee.
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Appeal, No. 124, Oct. T., 1918, by plaintiffs, from judgment of O. P. Allegheny Co., Jan. T., 1917, No. 542, on verdict for defendant in the cáse of Edward Beatty and Irene Beatty, his wife, Appellants, v. Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, a corporation. Action in trespass by husband and wife to recover damages for personal injuries sustained in a collision with an automobile owned by defendant and driven by defendant’s employee. Before Reid, J. The negligence alleged, inter alia, was the defective condition of the automobile and the high speed at which it was driven. The court gave binding…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
Under the undisputed facts in this case, set forth in the opinion of the learned court below denying plaintiffs’ motion for a new trial, Dunlap, a chauffeur of the defendant company, was clearly not upon his master’s business, but on business or pleasure purely of his own, when the truck he was driving collided with the automobile in which the appellants were passengers, and the judgment is, therefore, affirmed.
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