At Forest Avenue and Sixteenth Street in Des Moines, two miscreant youths who’d been riding with friends in a rented 1999 Chevy Blazer began shooting off a large quantity of fireworks at persons and vehicles in the neighborhood. What happened next is somewhat muddled by the contradictory accounts of various witnesses, but involved the detonation of the substantial trove of fireworks in the Blazer’s cargo area, severely injuring several of the car’s occupants. Last month the Iowa Supreme Court ruled against a lawsuit seeking to make Enterprise Rent-a-Car pay for the injuries through vicarious liability, saying the accident could not reasonably be attributed to the driving of the young woman who’d rented the vehicle. (Wells v. Whitaker and Enterprise). Random Mentality (Dec. 10) has more.
Memo to fireworks abusers
At Forest Avenue and Sixteenth Street in Des Moines, two miscreant youths who’d been riding with friends in a rented 1999 Chevy Blazer began shooting off a large quantity of fireworks at persons and vehicles in the neighborhood. What happened next is somewhat muddled by the contradictory accounts of various witnesses, but involved the detonation […]
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Common Sense From The Bench
What I find amazing is that the case made it’s way to the state Supreme Court. Nevertheless, score one for common sense.