Clark v. Mincks

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

Plaintiffs Clark assert three claims growing out of an alleged wrongful death: one against the owner and the estate of the deceased driver of the van which was involved, another against the hosts of a cookout which the deceased driver had attended, and the third against a passenger in the van. These two consolidated appeals involve the latter two claims.

The appeals present two basic tort liability questions, and come to us on the pleadings and results of discovery. One appeal is founded on the hosts’ alleged giving alcoholic beverages to an intoxicated guest (the driver of…