BAYNES v. RUSTLER'S GULCH SYNDICATE, LLC

No. 26006-2-III.

173 P.3d 1000 (2007)

Dorothy BAYNES, as Guardian ad Litem for Brandon BAYNES, Appellant, v. RUSTLER'S GULCH SYNDICATE, LLC, Respondent, Brian Reynolds, a minor, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 3.

December 27, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles T. Conrad Jr., Paine, Hamblen, Coffin, Brooke & Miller, Stephen Craig Haskell, Stephen Haskell Law Offices PLLC, Spokane, WA, for Appellant.

Richard Scott Fallon, Gregory G. Jones, Attorney at Law Seattle, WA, for Respondent.


SWEENEY, C.J.

¶ 1 Absent a special relationship (usually resulting from some obligation to protect), a landowner has no duty to protect third parties from the criminal conduct of trespassers. A passenger in a car was injured when the driver of that car crashed. Both the driver and the passenger were minors and both had been drinking heavily at a "kegger" party on land owned by the defendant. The landowner did not know...

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