Legal Opinion
Weber v. Budget Truck Rental, LLC
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided June 13, 2011No. 65021-1-IPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtEllington, J.
¶1 Negligent entrustment of a vehicle occurs when the person entrusting the vehicle knows or should know that at the time, the driver is not competent. Here there is no evidence that the driver appeared impaired or otherwise incompetent at the time he rented a vehicle from Budget Truck Rental, and the court properly granted summary judgment to Budget.
BACKGROUND
¶2 At around noon on May 20, 2008, Timothy Turner entered a Budget Truck Rental office to rent a moving van. Although he had smoked methamphetamine at around 5:00 that morning, none of the three Budget agents who inter acted with Turner…
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