Pugmire Lincoln-Mercury, Inc. v. Sorrells

How courts have described this case

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• declining to reach question of whether a vendor of automobile may be held liable under theory of negligent entrustment
• declining to reach question of whether a vendor of automobile may be held liable under theory of negligent entrustment
• recognizing negligent entrustment as theory of recovery
• reversing trial court’s denial of defendant entrustor’s motion for directed verdict
• dealer not liable where no evidence that vehicle entrusted with actual knowledge of driver’s intoxication
• Evidence must first show that \the vehicle was `entrusted' with actual knowledge of the intended driver's incompetence\ before reaching questions as to whether \the evidence shows a `sale' and [whether] a `sale' is an entrustment... .\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).