Pugmire Lincoln-Mercury, Inc. v. Sorrells

Deen, Presiding Judge.

1. The motion to dismiss the appeal is denied. Code Ann. § 6-803 (a).

2. The gravamen of recovery against Pugmire is for the negligent entrustment of the Ford automobile to Worley, thereby creating a dangerous instrumentality. Burks v. Green, 85 Ga. App. 327 (69 SE2d 686). Pugmire’s first enumeration of error is that the evidence, documentary and otherwise, establishes that at the time of the crash the car was owned by Worley and that Pugmire, as vendor rather than owner, has no liability under an entrustment theory. We do not rule on this enumeration because even…