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Show Partner's Liability. A unique question of liability in nn automobllo accident caso wao decided by tho supremo court of South Dakota in Van Horn vs. Simpson, which held that whero defendants were copartners copart-ners and woro riding In an automobllo In partnership business, tho negligence negli-gence of tho owner and partner in driving tho uutomobllo was lmputablo to tho other partner, slnco as a' member mem-ber of tho copartnership tho owner nnd driver was his agent, and both defendants wero Jointly llablo Tor Injuries In-juries to a traveler upon tho highway. It is pointed -out "that theso two defendants de-fendants at the tlmeMn question wcro copartners In tho real cstato buslnoss, and that this nuto was then transporting transport-ing both dofendants in tho prosecution prosecu-tion of such copartnership buslnoss: that It was then being used ns an Instrument In-strument for tho bcnoflt and within tho scopo.of tho partnership business; that Simpson was not a passenger or gratuitous guost of Anderson in said car, but wob n party Interested !ln tho purposo and buslnoss In whlcli such car was thon bolng operated. |
