David v. Joseph

MILLS, Judge.

Ed Joseph, a resident of Monroe in the parish of Ouachita, is the owner of an automobile. On the evening of August 21, 1934, his major son, Charley Joseph, a member of his household, and one Jimmy De Corte borrowed the car for a pleasure ride. As neither Ed nor Charley Joseph testifies, we have only De Corte’s word as to the transaction. He says: “Me and Charley Joseph was setting in the car in front of the store-about six or six-thirty; so we decided to go up town and he asked Mr. Ed could we take the car and go up town and he said yes.”

Passing John David, a friend of theirs,…