Zinck v. Gateway Country Store, Inc.

A jury returned verdicts for the plaintiffs on their claims that the defendant, Gateway Country Store, Inc. (Gateway), negligently sold alcohol to an underage person and that this sale proximately caused Trista Zinck’s death and Neil Born-stein’s severe injuries.5 Posttrial motions for new trial and judgment notwithstanding the verdict were also denied. Gateway now claims that (1) certain statements made to police were improperly admitted under the statements against penal interest hearsay exception; (2) the evidence was insufficient to support the jury’s finding that Gateway negligently sold…