Owner Liability for Entrusting Vehicle to Incompetent Driver

Owner Liability for Entrusting Vehicle to Incompetent Driver: A lower court had ordered a party to pay damages for injuries sustained by another party when a vehicle, which the defendant had lent to a third party who was driving without a license, collided with the injured party's vehicle; the Court of Cassation rejected the appeal, holding that the owner of the vehicle could be held liable under general civil liability principles for damage caused by a vehicle they allowed another to use, even if they were not the driver, because the owner's fault in entrusting the vehicle to an incompetent driver established the necessary causal link for liability.