New Mexico Supreme Court· 9/13/1982

Lopez Ex Rel. Lopez v. Maez

Citations

651 P.2d 1269
98 N.M. 625

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concluding that tavern-keepers have a duty to foreseeable third parties harmed when the tavern-keeper serves an intoxicated individual alcohol
recognizing that the existence of a duty may be established by the enactment of a regulation or statute
establishing that a tavern owner owes a duty to third parties that may be harmed by his inebriated patrons
establishing that a tavern owner owes a duty to third parties that may be harmed by his inebriated patrons
discussing proximate cause as that which in a natural and continuous sequence unbroken by any new independent cause produces the injury and without which injury would not have occurred
stating requirements for negligence claim: duty, breach, proximate causation, and damages

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Judges: Riordan, Easley, Sosa, Federici, Payne

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