Spratling v. Butler

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that whether driver was on a mission of his own and had no permission to be driving at time of accident was “without significance in a case of negligent entrustment”
• holding that whether driver was on a mission of his own and had no permission to be driving at time of accident was “without significance in a case of negligent entrustment”
• holding that whether driver was on a mission of his own and had no permission to be driving at time of accident was A without significance in a case of negligent entrustment @
• “If, after the automobile is entrusted to such driver, he operates it negligently, and thereby causes damages to a third person, the causal connection is shown between the negligence of the owner in lending him the automobile and the damage to the third person.”
• “If, after the áutomobiie is entrusted to such driver, he operates it negligently, and [the driver proximately] causes damages to a third person, the causal connection is shown between the negligence of thé owner in lending him the automobile and the damage' to the third person.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).