Savage v. Donovan

Citations

• 118 Wash. 692
• 204 P. 805
• 1922 Wash. LEXIS 728

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant (174, 182) — Injury to Third Persons— Scope of Employment — Evidence—Sufficiency. The owner of an automobile is not liable for injury to a person caused by the negligence of one driving the car when the latter is not using it at the time in the employment, or upon the business, of the owner, but on business or pleasure of his own without any reference to the business of the owner; and the presumption that he was using it in the business of the owner is rebutted, as a matter of law, where a friend of the owner volunteered to take the car back to the garage, but instead of doing so drove about for his own pleasure.</p>