Holbrooks v. Ford Rental System

Plaintiff, aged ten, by his next friend, sued Ford Bental System, a partnership composed of Charlie and Phil Men'delsohn, for damages alleged to have been inflicted upon him by reason of a collision of the defendant’s Ford automobile with him while he was crossing a public highway. At the time of the collision the automobile was rented to Alex Dixon and Joe McCarver, and was being driven by the former in an easterly direction on the Alabama public road towards Eome. The allegations of negligence, briefly stated, are: (1) When defendant let out said automobile the brakes were so loose and…