Parker v. Mineral County

*594OPINION

By the Court,

Young, J.:

This is an appeal from a summary judgment in a wrongful death action. The district court granted summary judgment to respondent Mineral County on the grounds that the county was immune from suit pursuant to NRS 41.032(2) and that the county owed no special duty to the decedent. Appellants assign these findings as error.

Between 6:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. on March 6, 1981, Charles Miller departed from Hawthorne to obtain a load of firewood. Approximately 15 miles south of Hawthorne, in Mineral County, Miller left the paved road and drove a short distance on the I.M.N.…