Jefferson County Burial Soc. v. Cotton

(after stating the facts as above).

The appellants’ major contentions are: (1) That the evidence shows without room for adverse inference that Dowdell, the driver of the ambulance, had stepped aside from the course of his employment in using the car'for purposes of his own, and that Cureton had no right or authority, and he was acting wholly without .the line and scope of his employment in driving the car at the time and place of the catastrophe; and (2) that the evidence shows without dispute that Cureton was in the employ of the defendant the Bradford Funeral Home, Inc., and that the other…