Western Industries, Inc. v. Poole

How courts have described this case

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• in negligent entrustment of motor vehicle case, defendant “is not liable merely because he or she, by the exercise of reasonable care and diligence, could have ascertained the fact”
• “A claim for the negligent entrustment of a motor vehicle cannot succeed in the absence of a showing that an employer has ‘actual knowledge’ that the driver is incompetent or habitually reckless.”
• employee had one hit-and-run conviction three years before subject collision
• employee had one hit-and-run conviction three years before subject collision

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).