Jerry Foster Is a Sole Proprietorship Who Owns a Canoe

Multiple Choice

Jerry Foster is a sole proprietorship who owns a canoe renting business. Jerry’s
employee, Terry Gibbs, greets customers at the company’s office, loads the
customers and their rented canoes onto a van, provides them with safety
instructions and drives them upstream. Once unloaded the canoers are on their
own to float back to the company’s office to check in. Although there have been
minor accidents, no one has drowned in the nine years the business has been in
operation. Jerry plans to add kayaks and rubber rafts next year. The scenery is
beautiful and each day people see wild animals come down to the water.

-If someone does drown this year,who will be held liable?

A) Terry Gibbs
B) Jerry Foster
C) Terry and Jerry
D) the customer and/or his canoe partner