Rabaut v. Ford Motor Sales Co.

Defendant Breisacher is a physician, practicing his profession in the city of Detroit and maintaining an office in the David Whitney building in the downtown section of said city. For a period of some five or six years prior to August 27, 1936, the date of the accident in question, he had employed the defendant William Venable as his chauffeur and houseman.

On August 24, 1936, the chauffeur took Dr. Breisacher’s Lincoln Zephyr automobile to the Ford Motor Sales Company for the purpose of having some repairs made thereon. The required repairs were of such a nature that they could not be…