Collins v. Luper

On October 29, 1966, appellee Luper was a passenger in a car driven by appellant Stephen Collins and owned by his father, appellant Edwin Collins. Earlier that day, Stephen had met his friends, including Luper, at a local drugstore; the boys, six in number, left in the Collins' car for the countryside to drink beer at approximately 7:45 p.m. Luper and Stephen were then eighteen years old. One of the boys, Edward Roche, was fifteen. Each of the boys drank two or three cans of beer. Thereafter, they returned to Rockville around 11:00 p.m. Stephen parked the car on the street so that he and two…