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Supreme Court of Colorado· 4/6/1992

Casebolt ex rel. Casebolt v. Cowan

Citations

  • 829 P.2d 352
  • 16 Brief Times Rptr. 526
  • 1992 Colo. LEXIS 281
  • 1992 WL 66690

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that owner of borrowed vehicle owed duty to borrower if owner knew borrower was “likely to use the vehicle in a manner involving unreasonable risk of physical harm to himself or others”
  • emphasizing that summary judgment “is appropriate only in the clearest of cases”
  • continuing control may give rise to a duty of entrustor to take reasonable steps to terminate entrustment in some circumstances
  • adopting Restatement seetion 890 as providing the framework to analyze the negligent entrustment of a motor vehicle
  • adopting Restatement section 390 as providing the framework to analyze the negligent entrustment of a motor vehicle
  • “[D]riving while intoxicated presents an unreasonable risk of physical harm to the driver and others.”

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Judges: Erickson, Lohr, Rovira, Vollack

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