Rosell v. Central West Motor Stages, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that because driver’s negligence is passed through to owner “it was proper to apportion fault among those directly involved in the accident”
• holding that because driver's negligence is passed through to owner \it was proper to apportion fault among those directly involved in the accident\
• holding that because the degree of negligence of the employer is of no consequence under a theory of derivative liability such as negligent hiring, the lower court did not err in apportioning fault among only those directly involved in the accident
• holding section 33.003 only requires fault to be apportioned among those directly liable, not those vicariously liable through negligent entrustment or respondeat superior
• holding section 33.003 only requires fault to be apportioned among those directly liable, not those vicariously liable through negligent entrustment or respondeat superior
• explaining that the trial court’s inclusion of respondeat superior, and exclusion of direct liability, jury instructions was “logical, simple, and clear”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).