Brockett v. Kitchen Boyd Motor Co.

Opinion

GARGANO, J.

For the second time, this case is before us; this time in a different posture and in a different climate. We are now called upon to decide, squarely, whether the umbrella of social drinking, in an era in which social drinking is a way of life for many, shields from civil liability, the actor who- knowingly and wilfully plies a minor with intoxicating liquor with the knowledge that the minor is going to drive an automobile on the public highways.

The chronology follows:

Plaintiffs instituted this action in the court below against Kitchen Boyd Motor Company, a co-partnership, to…