Harris v. Kline
Harris v. Kline
Opinion of the Court
This was an action for personal injuries. The plaintiff, while driving his car on the main road between Bridgeton and Millville, was run into by a truck belonging to Kline, which was being driven by one Lounsbury. He was an employe of the defendant. The trial resulted in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, the jury awarding him $684; and from the judgment entered on this award the defendant Kline has. appealed.
The sole ground upon which the appeal is rested is that the trial court erroneously denied the defendant’s motion for a verdict, which motion was rested upon the ground that the uneontroverted proofs in the case showed that the defendant’s truck at the time of its collision with the plaintiff’s car was not being used by the defendant’s servant while engaged in the service of his employer, but solely for his own pleasure.
In the case of Tischler v. Steinholtz, 99 N. J. L. 152, Mr. Justice Trenchard, delivering the opinion of the Court of
The judgment under review will be reversed.
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