Cowart v. Jordan

1. The mere fact that the extra drivers may have at times driven ears operated from the New Deal line, without any showing whether on such occasions they were employed directly by the owner of the cab which they operated, and without any showing that there was a general custom for employees of owners operating taxicabs from that line to employ another, would not authorize an inference that the defendant had impliedly consented for Jessie Maddox, the regular driver, to employ anyone else to operate his cab. Therefore, the question of custom is not material to the determination of this ease.-

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