Zowin v. Peoples Brewing Co.

The defendant is a brewing'Company with offices and plant in Duluth, Minnesota. It employs trucks in its business which are stored in the Repke Brothers garage in Duluth. One of its trucks driven by Alger Meyer, employee of the defendant, was being operated in the city of Superior when it collided with a horse. As a result of the collision the truck went off on the left side of the highway and became mired in the mud: Meyer, the driver of the truck, called Repke Brothers garage, and in his examination in chief said he told them to send over one of the Peoples Brewing Company trucks “to pull…