Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. v. Mayes

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• concluding that employer was not vicariously liable when employee drove his employer’s truck to nearby convenience store to purchase cigarettes
• holding that an employee was not within the scope of employment while using his employer's vehicle to run a personal errand, even though he was not restricted from using the truck for personal business
• holding that one of the elements of negligent entrustment is that the owner knew or should have known at the time of entrustment to be unlicensed, incompetent, or reckless
• stating that prior citations for driving without liability insurance, for rear-ending another vehicle, and for speeding insufficient to establish incompetence or recklessness
• holding summary judgment properly granted when uncontroverted testimony of defendant driver showed driver was on personal errand at time of accident
• holding an employer vicariously liable for the negligent acts of its employee when such acts occur during the course and scope of the employee’s employment

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