Mathews v. Federated Service Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring for negligent entrustment “that the risk of harm to plaintiff (or the class of persons to whom he belongs) was reasonably foreseeable.” (citations omitted)
• contrasting the rights of a lessee that “may be restricted both temporally and in the manner of use” with “a transferee who has an unrestricted and irrevocable right to possess and control a car”
• Although car rental agency allegedly had rule against renting cars to drivers under 25 years of age, agency did not negligently entrust automobile to person where person was under 25 but legally old enough to drive under state law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).