Supreme Court of Virginia
Alberta S. Turner v. Kenneth E. Lotts, Sr.
November 6, 1992244 Va. 554
Summary
The Court affirmed summary judgment for the vehicle owners on the plaintiff's negligent-entrustment claim. The plaintiff's allegations that the owners knew their son had received three traffic tickets, been involved in two accidents, and required a separate insurance policy did not establish that he was an unfit driver likely to injure others or that the entrustment proximately caused the accident. The record therefore presented no material fact genuinely in dispute.
Holding
- Whether the plaintiff's evidence was sufficient to support negligent entrustment and avoid summary judgment.. The plaintiff's allegations were insufficient as a matter of law to support negligent entrustment. The parents were entitled to summary judgment because the record did not show that they knew or had reasonable cause to know that their son was an unfit driver likely to injure others, or that negligent entrustment was a proximate cause of the accident.
Docket Record 920189
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