Court Opinion

ID: 9667772
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:54:50.349899+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:40.763517
License: Public Domain

*554BLACKMAN, Judge,
concurring.
I concur. There are a number of reasons why the plaintiffs should not be allowed to recover on the facts shown by this record. The deceased willingly participated in a drinking party and died as a result of his own indulgence. The plaintiffs’ attempt to personalize the national and local fraternity organizations and to indict them as the causative agents in the tragedy are highly artificial and do not mask the fact that the 19 year old decedent simply drank himself to death. I do not believe that the tort system should provide a civil remedy under these circumstances.