Courtinard v. Gray Burial & Cremation Co.

*494The opinion of the court was delivered by

Minturn, J.

The Gray Burial and Cremation Company of Cranford, in this state, like many undertaking establishments, conducted a livery business in which it let-automobiles out for hire. The defendants, Caseys, were undertakers in business at Plainfield, and hired one of the Gray automobiles, with a driver, to go from Plainfield to a cemetery in Brooklyn, where an interment was to he made under the Caseys’ direction. John F. Casey sat upon the front seat with the driver, but gave no directions and exercised no control over the machine, except to state…