Supreme Court of Alabama August 6, 1976, SC 1491-1494 (Harbour v. Colonial Fast Freight Lines, Inc.)

This appeal will determine if the issue, of whether an owner-lessor is acting within the line and scope of his employment with the lessee motor freight common carrier, is one of fact, when a freight haul of the carrier is interrupted to allow repairs to the leased truck-tractor, and third parties are injured from operation of the tractor immediately before the freight haul is resumed.