Stokes v. Wynn

The plaintiffs below, Clyde Stokes and his family, appeal a final judgment finding no liability on the part of the defendants, the Hertz Corporation and its lessee, Dela-na Wynn. The jury found co-defendant Nathaniel Phillips, who was driving the . rental car, solely liable for the accident in which Stokes was injured. Appellants claim that the court erred by instructing the jury that if it found that Phillips’s actions in taking the vehicle amounted to a theft or conversion, then it could find Wynn, and thus Hertz, not liable. We conclude that the court did not err in so instructing the jury…