Klingerman v. SOL Corp. of Maine

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• refusing “to encumber the law of proximate causation with an artificial limitation that precludes jury consideration of the causal relationship between the sale of intoxicating beverages and consequent harm”
• “If the statute does not constitute the exclusive remedy, the merits of the action will be governed by common law principles.”
• An intoxicated person may recover damages on negligence theory from the person who sold him alcoholic beverages while he was visibly intoxicated.
• An intoxicated person may recover damages on negligence theory from the person who sold him alcoholic beverages while he was visibly intoxicated.
• now abrogated by Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 28-A, § 2511

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