Salamone v. Riczker

What constitutes control of property sufficient to make a negligent entrustment is the principal question to be depided. That issue was central to a jury verdict in favor of the.plaintiffs against Tal Riczker.

During the fall of 1987, Tal, fifteen years old at the time, found a set of keys to a car owned by his father. 3 He hid them under a radiator in a bedroom in his family’s house. There they remained until the night of October 3, 1987, a Saturday, when Tal’s parents were away. Tal telephoned two friends, Christopher Murphy and Peter Hillman, invited them over to spend the night, and told…