Koback v. Crook

HEFFERNAN, CHIEF JUSTICE.

The question presented is whether a third party, Leslie Koback, injured by an intoxicated driver, Michael Crook, has a common law cause of action for negligence against Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Brooks and their adult son, Paul Brooks, the social hosts, who served alcohol to a minor, Michael Crook, *261when the hosts knew, or should have known, that Crook was a minor and knew, or should have known, that the minor guest would drive, and when the minor’s consumption of alcohol was a cause of the injury to the third party.

We conclude that the circuit court erred when it concluded…