Family sues friends who partied with Jax as she got drunk, died:
The family of Amanda Jax, the woman who drank herself to death at a Mankato nightspot in celebration of her 21st birthday, is suing the bar and the friends who bought her a steady stream of drinks.
The lawsuit, being filed today in Blue Earth County District Court, says that Jax's college-age friends on Oct. 29 brought her one drink after another in less than two hours.
Jax, the suit contends, "was in the care" of the friends that night who gave alcohol to "an obviously intoxicated person." Their actions, the suit continues, "created an unreasonable risk of causing physical harm" to Jax, and the friends "failed to exercise reasonable care" in preventing harm to Jax.
"Regardless of the signs," the suit alleges, "Amanda's friends continued to purchase and provide Amanda with alcoholic beverages."
Exactly what part of "drank herself to death" is not clear here? Obviously this is a tragic situation and I can understand that the family is having a difficult time accepting what happened. But not everything bad in life can or should be blamed on someone or something.
Unless her friends held her down and poured drinks down her throat against her will (which they didn't), the responsibility for her unfortunate demise rests with Amanda Jax. She chose to get loaded in the first place. She chose to drink too much.
That won't provide any solace for the familty, but neither will trying to pin responsibility on her friends by taking them to court.
No comments:
Post a Comment