Underberg v. Stewart

Opinion by

Trexler, J.,

The defendant was a garage keeper and had the plaintiff’s car in his charge. An employee of the defendant took the automobile from the garage and in driving it collided with a steel pillar of an elevated street railway and the car was ruined. The jury has settled the question that the plaintiff at no time had authorized any employee of the garage keeper to take out his car; in fact the testimony was to the effect that he had given explicit directions that no one should be allowed to touch the car, not even to wash it. We have already stated in Hare v. Mulligan, 77 Pa.…