BROADWATER v. DORSEY

No. 6 Sept. Term, 1996.

688 A.2d 436 (1997)

344 Md. 548

Ronald Lee BROADWATER, Sr., et al. v. Matilda Woodward DORSEY, et vir.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for Reconsideration Denied March 11, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew S. Sturtz, E. Hutchinson Robbins, Jr., Miles & Stockbridge, on brief, Baltimore, for Petitioners.

John T. Ward, Ward, Kershaw and Minton, on brief, Baltimore, for Respondents.

Argued before BELL, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and RAKER, JJ., and ROBERT C. MURPHY, Judge (retired), specially assigned.


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...

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