Stead v. Swanner

JUDE G. GRAVOIS, Judge.

[sPreston Stead, a seventeen-year-old high school student, drove while legally intoxicated and died after he crashed his SUV in a single-vehicle accident. His parents, plaintiffs Douglas Stead and Charlotte Bremermann, sued defendant Susan Swanner, the mother of Preston’s friend, Chet Vaughn, at whose home Preston and other teens drank alcoholic beverages that evening. Plaintiffs alleged that Ms. Swan-ner provided inadequate supervision to the teens that evening by failing to prevent Preston from drinking, despite the fact that Ms. Swanner did not purchase or otherwise…