Schwartz v. Johnson

The defendant Jeff D. Johnson, a citizen of Memphis, was the owner of an automobile which he permitted his son Jeff D. Johnson, Jr., to usé. The younger Johnson, a boy about twenty years old, was out in the car with Edward Schwartz, another boy about the same age. The Johnson boy was driving the car, and there was a collision between this car and a truck, by which the Schwartz boy was killed. This suit was brought by the administrator of Edward Schwartz, seeking to hold the elder Johnson liable for negligence of the younger Johnson in the operation of the automobile resulting in the death of…