Bertrand v. Hunt

Citations

• 89 Wash. 475
• 154 P. 804
• 1916 Wash. LEXIS 713

Syllabus

<p>Principal and Agent — Relation—Negligence—Acts oe Agents— Agency or Bailment. Where plaintiff allowed a prospective buyer and sales agent, who was indirectly interested in plaintiff’s sale, to take plaintiff’s automobile for a few days for the purpose of demonstration and teaching the buyer to drive the car, and the car was damaged and the buyer killed while attempting to drive the car under the sales agent’s instructions, the sales agent was plaintiff’s agent and his negligence, if any, was plaintiff’s negligence; and the estate of the deceased buyer is not liable for the loss of the car or the negligence of the buyer as a gratuitous bailee.</p>