Swift Coal & Timber Co. v. Lewis

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the fact a driver acknowledged that the driver of an 18–wheeler is generally safer in a collision than the driver of the other vehicle meant that the presumption against self-destructive behavior did not apply
• finding that the fact that driver acknowledged that the driver of an 18–wheeler is generally safer in a collision than the driver of the other vehicle meant that the presumption against self-destructive behavior did not apply
• noting evidence employer knew employee was incompetent to drive was required to establish claim for negligent hiring, training, retention, supervision, or entrustment
• collecting Alabama cases that briefly mention the concept of a wantonness per se claim, but ultimately finding no Alabama case affirming its validity as a cause of action
• denying summary judgment on a wantonness claim because a genuine dispute of material fact existed as to whether the driver of tractor-trailer turned his large rig around on the highway in conscious disregard of the alleged danger to traffic he was creating

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).