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Show "Dad"Is Held Responsible In Legal Circles For Damage Dam-age Caused By Family Car Salt Lake Cily, April 22 Although the law provides that an owner of an automobile is not responsible for damage to others, unless the driver is acting as an agent, the "family doctrine" in legal circles accepts "dad" as "holding the bag," where the family car is concerned, according accord-ing to the Utah State Automobile Association. The family doctrine is that if the head of a family provides an automobile auto-mobile for the use of his family, then it is not necessary to show that the member of the family who was driving the car at the time the injury in-jury was occasioned, was acting as (be agent of the head of the famly. Upon showing that the car was eo provided for the use of the family by the head of the family, the latter is held responsible for the negligence neglig-ence of the driver. The theory of this doctrine is that the automobile is a dangerous instrument in-strument and that when the head of the family places it in the hands of hi.s family, he is responsible, the motor association emphasizes. There j are exceptions to this rule but it (Will prevail generally. I n |