Gaines v. Brown

Mrs. W. L. Brown sued John A. Gaines for damages, claiming tliat a truck operated by the defendant’s agent and servant injured her husband, causing his death. Gaines filed his answer to the suit, admitting ownership of the automobile truck, but denying that the driver thereof was his agent or servant, or that the driver was engaged in defendant’s business. W. L. Brown was injured on September 6, 1929, and died on December 4, 1929, approximately three months after the injury. The defendant de*67rued that the death of plaintiff’s husband was caused by the alleged injury. The issue made by the…