LANGEMANN v. DAVIS


398 Mass. 166 (1986)

495 N.E.2d 847

RUTH E. LANGEMANN vs. MARGARET DAVIS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Barnstable.

August 6, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald M. Davids (Richard P. Campbell with him) for the plaintiff.

Philip E. Murray, Jr. (Steven R. Kruczynski with him) for the defendant.

Annette M. Gonthier & Walter A. Costello, Jr., for Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

The plaintiff was injured early on January 8, 1983, in a motor vehicle accident caused by the negligence of one Darren R. Hathaway. Hathaway was then an eleventh grade student at Harwich High School and not yet eighteen years old. Prior to the accident he had been drinking beer at a party given by the defendant Davis's daughter. Although she was not home that evening, Davis had given her daughter, also a high school student, permission to hold the party...

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