Privette v. Faulkner

OPINION

By the Court,

Zenoff, J.:

On October 16, 1971, braced with several sips from a bottle of brandy, Alvan L. Privette, Jr., Everett Burke and Luke Aluevich, all of Reno, embarked upon a hunting trip to eastern Nevada.. Burke, owner of the vehicle, began the driving chores and was known to be the driver until the party reached Fernley, Nevada. After passing through Fernley, neither Burke nor Privette remembered anything including the identity of the driver of Burke’s automobile until after the tragic accident which took the life of Luke Aluevich.

*355Twenty miles east of Lovelock, Nevada, the…