· 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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