· 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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