E. L. Cheeney Company and Edmon Lewis Fregia v. Walter L. Gates, Jr.

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• holding, before 1975 amendment to Fed.R.Civ.P. 43(a), that state rule of evidence so intertwined with the state substantive action of negligent entrustment that state rule must be followed in federal diversity action.
• holding, before 1975 amendment .to Fed.R.Civ.P. 43(a), that state rule of evidence so intertwined with the state substantive action of negligent entrustment that state rule must be followed in federal diversity action.
• “[T]his testimony was elicited after the Court, over vigorous objection, had admitted the general reputation testimony from the 20 highway patrolman. Counsel were simply trying to make the best of a situation brought about by the Court’s ruling.”

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