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· 3/9/1978

Barnstable County Mutual Fire Insurance v. Lally

Citations

  • 373 N.E.2d 966
  • 374 Mass. 602
  • 1978 Mass. LEXIS 880

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • explaining that negligent entrustment is a “distinct and specific cause of action ... derived from the more general concepts of ownership, operation, and use of a motor vehicle”
  • “ 1 [Negligent entrustment’ as a distinct and specific cause of action is not exclusive of, but, rather, is derived from the more general concepts of ownership, operation, and use of a motor vehicle”

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Judges: Hennessey, Quirico, Braucher, Kaplan, Abrams

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