DeCosta v. United States District Court, District of Minnesota

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that owner of automobile has a duty \to deny permission to another to drive his automobile for his own purposes when he knows such a person is an incompetent or reckless driver or by the exercise of reasonable diligence he could have known of such incompetency or recklessness\
• stating that owner of automobile has a duty \to deny permission to another to drive his automobile for his own purposes when he knows such a person is an incompetent or reckless driver or by the exercise of reasonable diligence he could have known of such incompetency or recklessness\
• “The liability of the owner does not arise by merely proving that he gave permission to an incompetent driver to drive his automobile but it must also appear that the incompetency alleged was the proximate cause of the commission of the negligent act which caused the injury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).