Adkison v. Thompson

STEAGALL, Justice.

This is an appeal of a summary judgment entered in favor of the defendant Lowell Thompson, individually and doing business as Just Friends nightclub, in an action that followed the death of Gregory Earl Adkison, a minor. We affirm in part; reverse in part; and remand.

I

During the evening of August 10, 1990, Gregory Earl Adkison, a 20-year-old minor, was served one or more beers at the Just Friends nightclub owned by Lowell Thompson. According to the deposition testimony of one of the nightclub’s waitresses, Gregory had previously presented to Thompson as proof of his majority…