Benevolent Protective Order of Elks Lodge 97 v. Hanover Insurance

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• noting that another reason supporting the common law rule is that the consumption of alcohol is the proximate cause of the injury
• third party injured by an intoxicated driver can maintain a common law action for negligence against server of alcohol
• The precursor to RSA 179:5 did not “impose civil liability, although a violation [of the statute was] evidence of negligence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).