Stewart v. Hoffmeister

Defendants Hoffmeister and Charles were operating a bus or passenger line from Sevierville to Elkmont in East Tennessee and also a line from Knoxville to Sevierville, and John Fisher, defendant, was their driver on this line from Sevierville to Elkmont. They had taken out insurance under chapter 729 of the Private Acts of 1925. On or about the evening or night of August 6, 1928, after arrival at Elkmont, a joy ride party was gotten up composed of Kenneth Johnson, Bill Mallicote, John Fisher, Ford Bailey, Douglas Bane, Althea "Wingo, and Margaret Stuart, deceased. The party, with the exception…