Legal Opinion
Parks v. Characters Night Club
Court of Appeals of South Carolina
Decided May 21, 2001No. 3342PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, Judge:
In this negligence action, Characters and Thomas Schweitzer, who is President of the corporation that owns Characters, appeal the magistrate’s denial of their motion for an involuntary nonsuit as well as the nonjury verdict in favor of Shonya Parks. They argue there was no evidence Characters was negligent or that Parks’ injury was reasonably foreseeable. We reverse.
FACTS/PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
On June 12, 1996, seventeen-year-old Shonya Parks attended “Teen Night” at Characters nightclub in Greenville, South Carolina. Parks was accompanied by her cousin, Tomika Miles, and two…
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