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· 9/10/1958

Laughlin v. Rose, Administratrix

Citations

  • 200 Va. 127
  • 104 S.E.2d 782

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding that the lack of a driver’s license, albeit a statutory violation, “did not proximately cause or contribute to the collision”
  • owner’s “negligence, if any, in entrusting the car to [the driver] must be determined by what he knew or should have known at the time he entrusted the ear to her”
  • there can be no recovery for negligent entrustment unless the reason for the entrustee’s disqualification from securing a license was a proximate cause of the collision

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Judges: Eggleston, Buchanan, Whittle, Snead

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