Lollar v. Dewitt

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• rationale of family purpose doctrine is to place financial responsibility upon head of family more likely to respond in damages when family member without sufficient assets uses family vehicle negligently
• “Basically, under this doctrine, where the head of the family, owns, furnishes, and maintains a vehicle for the general use, pleasure, and convenience of the family, he is liable for the negligence of a member of the family having general authority to drive it.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).