Runge v. Watts

Plaintiff brought this action in the District Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District in Yellowstone County alleging negligence on the part of defendant in serving alcohol to a minor whose intoxication allegedly resulted in a car accident causing plaintiff’s injury. Plaintiff appeals from an order and judgment dismissing his complaint against defendant Poppler on the ground that it fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.

On April 26, 1975, David Allen Watts, then a minor, attended a party at the home of defendant, Doris Poppler, and drank some beer, allegedly furnished by…