Hohmann v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions

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1. “It seems clear that defendant owed to the deceased the duty of due care with respect to the truck, with its equipment and driver, which he furnished. The applicable rule is well stated by the American Law Institute, sectipn 408, Restatement of Torts, as follows: “One who leases a chattel as safe for immediate use is subject to liability to those whom he should expect to use the chattel, or to be in the vicinity of its probable use, for bodily harm caused by its use, in a manner for which, and by a person for whose use, it is leased, if the lessor fails to exercise reasonable care to make it safe for such use or to disclose its actual condition to those who may be expected to use it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 920 F. Supp. 1188 - Stewart v. NationaLease of Kansas City, Inc.