Nichols v. Atnip

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• discussing how a defendant -5- who assumes a special relationship with a third party may also incur a duty to control the conduct of that third party
• finding, as a matter of law, that parents had no duty to prevent them adult son from driving while intoxicated and killing the plaintiffs’ decedents, because, inter alia, there was no indication that the parents had the means or ability to exercise control over their son’s use of his car
• No Tenn. R.App. P. 11 application filed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).