Adamian v. Three Sons, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• declaring, as a matter of common law, “[h]enceforth in this Commonwealth waste of human life due to drunken driving on the highways will not be left outside the scope of foreseeable risk created by the sale of liquor to an already intoxicated individual
• bar owner could be held liable to those injured by patron to whom bar negligently served excessive quantities of alcoholic beverages
• negligence of an establishment serving alcohol extended to a motorist killed in a collision with automobile driven by patron who became intoxicated at the establishment
• \Henceforth in this Commonwealth waste of human life due to drunken driving on the highways will not be left outside the scope of the foreseeable risk created by the sale of liquor to an already intoxicated individual\
• “Henceforth in this Commonwealth waste of human life due to drunken driving on the highways will not be left outside the scope of the foreseeable risk created by the sale of liquor to an already intoxicated individual”
• illegal sale to intoxicated person can be basis for common-law negligence claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).