Court Opinion

ID: 9540449
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:16:05.273+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:59:51.042484
License: Public Domain

PRESIDING JUSTICE McCULLOUGH, dissenting: In Teter, the supreme court, quoting section 308 of the Restatement (Second) of Torts, said: “ ‘It is negligence to permit a third person to use a thing or to engage in an activity which is under the control of the actor, if the actor knows or should know that such person intends or is likely to use the thing or to conduct himself in the activity in such a manner as to create an unreasonable risk of harm to others’ ” (Emphasis added.) (Teter v. Clemens (1986), 112 Ill. 2d 252, 257, 492 N.E.2d 1340, 1342, quoting Restatement (Second) of Torts §308, at 100 (1965).) The supreme court also referred to section 318 of the Restatement (Restatement (Second) of Torts §318 (1965)), which states in substance that it deals with harm to others or the trustee conducting himself as to create an unreasonable risk of bodily harm to others. I believe that the negligent entrustment doctrine deals with duties owed to third persons and not to the entrustee himself. The doctrine, as is apparent, applies to causes of action where a third party sues the entrustor for the negligent acts of the entrustee. This is not the factual situation here and the trial court should be affirmed.