Nutting v. Zieser

CARTER, Justice.

Plaintiff, Daniel Nutting, appeals from an adverse judgment in an action seeking damages from defendant, Keith Zieser, a liquor licensee doing business as Zieser’s Tap. The action stems from injuries sustained by plaintiff after consuming alcoholic beverages at defendant’s place of business. At the time of such consumption, plaintiff, at age nineteen, was under the age at which he could legally be sold intoxicating beverages.

The district court granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment on the authority of our decisions in Fuhrman v. Total Petroleum, Inc., 398 N.W.2d 807…