Camalier v. Jeffries

ARNOLD, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs’ first assignment of error is that the trial court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of defendants Daniels and The News and Observer. In granting The News and Observer’s motion, the trial court ruled that the common law at the time of this judgment (22 July 1992) did not recognize “social host liability for persons giving a party for social entertainment purposes even if the party provides excessive alcohol to an adult who thereafter leaves impaired and injures another.” The trial court noted that three exceptions to the common law rule of nonliability…