Amador v. Lea's Auto Sales & Leasing, Inc.

BARNEY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered after a jury verdict was entered in favor of Respondents, Laurie and Joseph Amador, plaintiffs at trial. Their claim arose out of an automobile accident and was tried on a negligent entrustment theory against Appellant, Lea’s Auto Sales & Leasing, Inc., defendant at trial, (Lea’s Auto).

On September 30, 1991, Robert McFall, a 15-year-old, passed a used car lot, owned and operated by Lea’s Auto, while walking to school. McFall stopped at the car lot and looked at several cars. He talked to no one although the lot manager, Troy Cole,…