Broadwater v. Dorsey

RAKER, Judge.

This case concerns the tort doctrine of negligent entrustment. The issue we must decide is whether the parents of an adult child who sell or who make a gift of an automobile to their adult child, with knowledge of the child’s reckless conduct, may be held answerable in damages to a third person subsequently injured by the son’s negligent operation of the automobile. The claim of liability is predicated upon the principle of legal responsibility for the negligent entrustment of an automobile to an allegedly incompetent driver. Specifically, we must decide whether a parent who…