Gorham v. Arons’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
November 2004
most recently cited
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Relies on Westchester Lighting Co. v. Westchester County Small Estates Corp.
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“[ujndoubtedly ... the lessor would be entitled to judgment over against the lessee for any liability that lessor might have sustained as owner of the truck but arising from the active negligence of lessee or its agents and employees. In this case, it would have been the active negligence of lessee’s driver in the operation of the vehicle. Since lessor’s negligence was passive, and arose constructively and solely by statute because of its registered ownership of the vehicle, it could have recovered judgment over against lessee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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