(DOWNLOAD) "Whiteside v. Harvey" by Colorado Supreme Court " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Whiteside v. Harvey
- Author : Colorado Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 17, 1951
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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The responsibility of the owner for the drivers negligence has been affirmed times without number. Had this accident occurred through the carelessness or negligence of the son, the employee driver, under the undisputed facts, as here, liability of the owner of the truck could not successfully be disputed. When this employee driver, without being confronted with any kind of an emergency, turned over the operation of the truck to his father, and remained in the presence of his father while he was driving, the acts of the father became the acts of the employee for which the employer is liable. The father, as driver, here became an instrumentality in the hands of his son, and, further, the truck here involved was on a mission in furtherance of defendants business. The request of the driver employee that his father drive the truck, knowing that the father was not familiar with this type of truck or the road over which it was to travel, and then going to sleep while the father was driving, was negligence.