Sheffer v. Carolina Forge Co.

How later courts described this case

• reversing summary judgment in favor of employer who provided a rental car and alcohol through expense reimbursements for employees' use on a business trip where employer knew or should have known that employees had propensity to become intoxicated and negligently operate automobile
• “Negligent entrustment of an automobile occurs when the automobile is supplied, directly or through a third person, for the use of another whom the supplier knows, or shown know, because of youth, inexperience, or otherwise, is likely to use it in a manner involving unreasonable risk of bodily harm to others, with liability for the harm caused thereby.”

Written by the judges who cited it.