Upshaw v. Roberts Timber Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• one sixteen-year-old speeding ticket, twenty-three-year-old DUI, and one other speeding ticket “do[] not demonstrate a pattern of reckless driving”
• one sixteen-year-old speeding ticket, twenty-three-year-old DUI, and one other speeding ticket “do[] not demonstrate a pattern of reckless driving”
• An employer was not liable as a matter of law for its employee's negligent driving which occurred during a trip unrelated to the employee's employment to visit relatives.
• An employer was not liable as a matter of law for its employee’s negligent driving which occurred during a trip unrelated to the employee’s employment to visit relatives.
• “The entrustor is not liable merely because he or she, by the exercise of reasonable care and diligence, could have ascertained the fact of the incompetency of the driver.”
• “entrustor’s denial of having knowledge that the driver was incompetent or habitually reckless shifts the burden to the plaintiff to set forth specific facts showing a genuine fact issue”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).