Tom Phillips is accused of allowing teens to drink

9:23 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010

A wrongful death lawsuit has accused Tom Phillips, former chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and his wife of routinely allowing teenagers to drink at their Bastrop home, leading to a 2 a.m. accident that killed a 17-year-old girl in 2009.

Filed by the parents of Audrey King, who died in a single-car wreck, the lawsuit accuses Tom and Lyn Phillips of allowing son Daniel, then 20, to throw numerous parties at their home, which the lawsuit claims was "well known in the Bastrop community as the location of frequent underage drinking parties."