Anderson v. Southern Cotton Oil Co.

■ I am unable to assent to the proposition that the owner of an automobile who permits another to use it for the latter’s sole convenience or pleasure becomes liable in damages to a stranger who may sustain an injury because of the negligent operation of the machine while so employed.

Nor do I agree that the owner of an automobile, *443whose servant or employee is permitted to use the machine in the transaction of his employer’s^ business, but who departs from his master’s business and goes upon an independent errand of his own, is liable in -damages fbr the tortious act of such employee committed…