Peek v. Equipment Services, Inc.

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• holding basis of responsibility for negligent hiring is master’s own negligence in hiring or retaining an incompetent servant whom the master knows or by the exercise of reasonable care should have known was incompetent or unfit, thereby creating an unreasonable risk of harm to others

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