Elder v. Fisher

How courts have described this case

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• in the absence of a special statutory provision, the general principles of common-law negligence should be applied to cases involving intoxicating liquor
• in the absence of a special statutory provision, the general principles of common-law negligence should be applied to cases involving intoxicating liquor
• in absence of special provision, common law negligence applies to cases involving intoxicating liquor
• in absence of special provision, common law negligence applies to cases involving intoxicating liquor
• a seller of liquor may be liable for injury resulting from the sale of alcohol to 6 “minors or drunks who are particularly susceptible to the use of liquor . . . if the circumstances should have warned him that his sale would create an unreasonable risk.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).