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· 3/7/1969

Carey v. New Yorker of Worcester, Inc.

Citations

  • 245 N.E.2d 420
  • 355 Mass. 450
  • 1969 Mass. LEXIS 810

How courts have described this case

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

  • serving hard liquor to one already drunk “may well make the individual unreasonably aggressive, and enhance a condition in which it is foreseeable that almost any irrational act is foreseeable”
  • “specific kind of harm need not be foreseeable as long as it was foreseeable that there would be . . . violence towards others”
  • “The specific kind of harm need not be foreseeable as long as it was foreseeable ... that there would be violence toward others.”
  • patron’s shooting of another foreseeable result of bar’s serving alcohol to intoxicated and boisterous patron
  • patron’s shooting of another foreseeable result of bar serving alcohol to intoxicated and boisterous patron
  • no error in instructing the jury as to the purpose of a statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Wilkins, Spalding, Whittemore, Kirk, Reardon

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