Bartley v. Budget Rent-A-Car Corp.

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• noting the possession of driver's license to be \prima facie evidence\ of driver's competency, which absent any evidence to the contrary conclusively negates the element that the rental company knew or should have known of the driver's incompetence
• noting “inexperience” is not present in the “elemental definition” of negligent entrustment
• absent specific evidence to the contrary, entrustee's possession of driver's license demonstrates entrustee's competency to drive

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