Burg customized and sold new vans and serviced used ones. Jake and Jayne Slinker were trusted employees
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Burg customized and sold new vans and serviced used ones. Jake and Jayne Slinker were trusted employees who had been carefully hired and trained and had worked for Burg for ten years. Jake did metalworking and woodworking; Jayne did upholstering. One holiday weekend, the Slinkers and an accomplice stole three vans and then disappeared. The first van belonged to Adams, who had brought it in to have the engine tuned. The second van belonged to Yates, a friend who had asked Burg if he could leave the van on the lot with a “For Sale” sign. Burg had agreed and did not charge Yates. The third van was a very valuable vehicle, built by Burg, and sold to Mox. Mox had loaned the van to Burg, free, for display in the latter’s exhibit at a Civic Auditorium show scheduled for the following week. What is Burg’s liability, if any, to each of the three parties (Adams, Yates, and Mox)?
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