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· 6/28/1966

Snowhite v. State, Use of Tennant

Citations

  • 221 A.2d 342
  • 243 Md. 291
  • 19 A.L.R. 3d 1155
  • 1966 Md. LEXIS 529

How courts have described this case

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  • limiting negligent entrustment liability to those suppliers who have the right to permit as well as power to prohibit
  • upholding admission of evidence of insurance to show control over driver
  • no abuse of discretion, as exercised, in allowing some testimony at rebuttal stage which did not rebut
  • whether defendant had either actual or constructive notice that employee was unfit as a driver was an issue
  • entrustee justified in regarding himself free to use vehicle for his own purposes with knowledge and acquiescence of entrustor in view of entire background and conduct of the parties
  • entrustor previously entrusted truck to entrustee with knowledge that entrustee had been drinking heavily

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Judges: Hammond, Horney, Oppenheimer, Barnes, McWieliams

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