Jones v. Beker

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• in ruling on summary judgment motion, trial court properly struck those portions of officer’s affidavit that contained a copy of the police report, since generally police reports are inadmissible hearsay
• “owner must knowingly entrust his automobile to an incompetent or unfit driver and that incompetency or unfitness must be a proximate cause of the accident that injured the third party”
• in ruling on summary judgement motion, trial court properly struck those portions of officer's affidavit that contained a copy of the police report, since generally police reports are inadmissible hearsay
• to be held liable for negligent entrustment, the lender must knowingly entrust automobile to an incompetent or unfit driver, and that incompetency or unfitness must be a proximate cause of the accident that injured third party
• to be held liable for negligent entrustment, the lender must knowingly entrust automobile to an incompetent or unfit driver, and that incompetency or unfitness must be a proximate cause of the accident that injured third party

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