Posted by mkirsch on June 12, 2012 at 06:31:30 from (64.80.110.75):
In Reply to: Tractor rental posted by Kirk Affeldt on June 12, 2012 at 05:23:35:
Unless this neighbor is in the business of renting tractors and has the proper insurance, I would not do it if you have any respect for him at all.
*YOU* would accept all responsibility, but what happens if you kill yourself using the tractor? Your grieving family will almost certainly succumb to the charms of a personal-injury lawyer and sue your neighbor into oblivion.
Your family accepted no such responsibility, and all your neighbor has is the word of a dead man to defend himself. There is no paper you can sign to absolve the neighbor of liability that will hold up in court.
What if the tractor has a costly major breakdown while you're using it? Will the neighbor eat the repair cost himself, or accuse you of abusing the tractor and expect you to pay for the repairs? Will you willingly pay for the repairs, or argue that the problem was there before you started using the tractor?
It can get VERY messy in a whole lot of ways... I would only rent a tractor from a business that does that sort of thing.
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