Cheek v. Hamlin

On December 16, 1967, defendant-appellee’s decedent, Jerry Hancock, together with his family, called at the home of Robert Eugene Cheek, now deceased, in the town of Osceola for the purpose of visiting with them. Later the two families went out together in two vehicles, stopped at a restaurant and had dinner and went to a bowling alley where some of the parties bowled and enjoyed the evening and then returned to Osceola to the Cheek residence.

There had been no drinking at any time during the course of the evening, at the bowling alley nor after the parties returned home, and neither had there…