Lenoci v. Leonard

¶ 1. This case asks the Court to decide if an eighteen-year-old has a duty to control the behavior of a fifteen-year-old friend and, if the fifteen-year-old later commits suicide, whether the eighteen-year-old is at fault. We affirm the trial court's grant of summary judgment to defendant and conclude she had no duty to intervene to prevent the tragedy that occurred.

¶ 2. Alexandra Brown was fifteen years old when she committed suicide in the early morning of February 21, 2007. Two nights before, on February 19, she and eighteen-year-old Kayla Leonard, defendant, had decided to go to a party…