Alterman v. Jinks

Quillian, Judge.

1. The defendant makes the following interesting assertion. He points out that the plaintiff was his servant and that his son was, under the family-purpose car doctrine, also his servant. Hence, he urges the principle of law: "An employee cannot recover from his master for injuries sustained in the master’s automobile where the driver, whose negligence is alleged to have caused the injury, was a fellow servant.” Miller v. Fulton, 111 Ga. App. 849 (2) (143 SE2d 578). See Code § 66-304; Morrison v. Lewis, 58 Ga. App. 677 (199 SE 782). It is true that the theory of the…