Tyree v. Tudor
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendants from Long, J., at September Term, 1921, of Eobsyth. This case was before the Court, 181 N. 0., 215, where the facts are fully stated. Bynum Tudor, son of the defendant George C. Tudor, at the time the plaintiff’s intestate was killed in the automobile wreck, was something over 16 years of age; living with. Ms father under Ms care and custody.
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Appeal by defendants from Long, J., at September Term, 1921, of Eobsyth. This case was before the Court, 181 N. 0., 215, where the facts are fully stated. Bynum Tudor, son of the defendant George C. Tudor, at the time the plaintiff’s intestate was killed in the automobile wreck, was something over 16 years of age; living with. Ms father under Ms care and custody. The father' was the owner of two automobiles, kept on his premises, and which he permitted his son to drive at his pleasure, sometimes alone and at other times with the family. On 19 June, 1918, at a dance for young people at the…
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
Tbis case was before us, 181 N. C., 215, upon facts substantially tbe same as in tbis appeal, and tbe Court beld in an unanimous opinion tbat “Where tbe owner of an automobile bas bis son to operate it as bis chauffeur, both for business purposes and for tbe comfort and pleasure of bis family, and there is evidence tbat be bas given bis permission for tbat son, just over 16 years of age, to use it in escorting tbe plaintiff’s intestate, a young girl of about tbe same age, to a dance, it is sufficient, upon tbe question of tbe agency of tbe son, to bind tbe father for negligence which…
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