Garner v. Pugh

ADAMS, Justice.

On February 19, 1991, Timothy Garner was attending a birthday party at the residence of defendants Randy and Kathy Kil-patrick. The residence was owned by Austin Pugh, also a defendant. Pugh had purchased the house three years earlier, intending to renovate it and eventually sell it. A concrete wall, dividing the backyard from the driveway, had been installed as a part of the renovation project. After the renovations, Carol Kilpatrick, an employee of Pugh and the mother of Randy Kilpa-trick, lived with her family in the house rent-free in exchange for a reduction in her wages,…