Bunch v. Stanton

Beasley, Judge.

This is an appeal from a grant of summary judgment, and the question is the nature of defendants’ legal duty to plaintiffs in these circumstances and whether they failed to perform it.

Plaintiff-appellant Bunch is the minor daughter of plaintiff-appellant Strauss. In May 1983 Bunch was invited by James Farrin to his nineteenth birthday party. Sixteen-year-old Bunch and three of her girl friends found that the party was being given by defendant-appellee Betton, age twenty-one, at the residence of his stepfather, defendant-appellee Stanton, and mother, who were away and were…