Cowan v. Strecker

Plaintiff filed suit against the owner and the driver of a motor vehicle. A default judgment was entered against the driver. The trial court entered a judgment of no cause of action in favor of the owner as the borrower of the vehicle had disobeyed instructions. We reverse.

On the day that defendant Grace Strecker’s car was being driven by defendant William Shannon that car collided with a car being driven by plain*640tiff John Cowan. Cowan was seriously injured. Grace Strecker had loaned her car to Virginia Shannon, William’s mother, with explicit instructions that no one drive that car other…