Thompson v. Dewey's South Royalton, Inc.

Because plaintiffs Ken Thompson, Annette Potwin, and Ashley Thompson purportedly satisfy the “more rigorous” standard urged by defendants, the majority declines to decide whether a legal relation of financial dependence is necessary to sue for loss of support under the Dram Shop Act (DSA), 7 V.S.A. § 501.1 am not persuaded that plaintiffs here satisfied this standard. Indeed, there is so little support for a finding of legal dependence in this case that it is difficult to conceive of any case where the necessary statutory predicate, however attenuated, could not be found. Accordingly, the…