McCammon

The defendant Edmunds conducted a dental laboratory in the city of Los Angeles, where he manufactured false teeth, plates, etc., for dentists. Defendant Frederick W. Miner, nineteen years of age, had been employed by him for about a month to make deliveries on a motorcycle owned by Edmunds at the time of the accident which is the subject of this action. The father and mother of Miner, who signed their son’s application for an operator’s license, were also made defendants. The complaint prays damages for injuries alleged to have been due to the negligence of the defendant Frederick W. Miner while driving appellant’s motorcycle. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff and against all defendants the defendant Edmunds has appealed.

The evidence shows that Miner was permitted by his employer to keep the motorcycle at his home and to ride it to and from work. On the day of the accident he made his last delivery at about 5 P. M. and went home, taking dinner with his family and Russell Holt, a friend. Young Holt had left his Ford car to be repaired at a garage some blocks away, and about 7:50 P. M. the two boys, on the motorcycle, went to get the Ford, after which they started for an oil…