Royal Indemnity Company v. HE Abbott & Sons, Inc.

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• finding no implied permission when a ranch employee ran a personal errand in a ranch vehicle despite having used the vehicle for non-ranch business “[o]n three or four occasions prior to the accident”
• employee who took ranch pickup on personal errand to San Angelo, which was thirty miles from the ranch, was not a permissive user
• on stronger facts than shown here, Court found no evidence of either relationship or prior course of conduct between employer and his employee, from which fact finder could infer implied permission to operate pickup truck

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).