Standard Accident Insurance v. Cloutier

The passengers, Auger and Daneault, worked for the Boston & Maine Railroad in Concord, and Odilon Cloutier was their foreman. All of the defendants lived in or near the village of Sun-cook. For five years prior to the accident the passengers had traveled to and from work nearly every work-day in Odilon Cloutier’s car. The court found that “contributions either in the purchase of gasoline or otherwise were made,” also that the “tender of varying amounts indicates that there existed at most a voluntary sharing of expenses, and not an understanding of a business character that the passengers…