Foote v. Grant

— The issue on this appeal is whether the driver of an automobile, who was responsible for a collision, was driving it with the permission of the owner, express or implied, at the time of the collision.

The Footes sustained injuries in consequence of the negligence of Oscar John Wernegreen who was driving a car belonging to J. F. Grant, from Chicago to Seattle. (For a more detailed statement of the facts and circumstances, see the opinion in Foote v. Grant (1960), 55 Wn. (2d) 797, 350 P. (2d) 870.) They secured default judgments against Wernegreen totalling $31,850; but the jury re*632turned a…