Estate of Ballard v. Hazel's Blue Sky

CARTER, Justice.

Colleen Dorrian, as parent and personal representative of decedent Ryan Ballard, appeals from an adverse summary judgment in an action seeking wrongful-death and loss-of-consortium damages from a liquor licensee doing business as Hazel’s Blue Sky Diner (Hazel’s).1 Ballard was killed when, after having been served alcoholic beverages at Hazel’s, he drove the truck he was operating into a utility pole. As his personal representative, Dorrian asserts on appeal that Ballard had a common-law claim that survives his death based on Hazel’s sale of an alcoholic beverage to an underage…