Holt v. Eastern Motor Company

An automobile dealer who furnishes to another an automobile to be driven by the latter for demonstration purposes is liable to a third person, whom the dealer knew would be in the vicinity of its use, for damages resulting from a latent defect therein which the dealer could have discovered by the exercise of ordinary care, where such defect is of such nature as to make the automobile, for the purpose furnished, a dangerous instrumentality as to such third person, if the third person could not have discovered the defect by the exercise of ordinary care and could not have avoided the…