Merchants National Bank v. Simrell's Sports Bar & Grill, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that proximate cause was not established when one bar patron shot and killed another bar patron after leaving the bar, which was the “intervening criminal act that broke the causal chain”
• noting the \existence and extent\ of an assumed duty \is ordinarily a question of fact for the trier of fact\
• proximate cause not established where one bar patron shot and killed another bar patron after leaving the bar; the “intervening criminal act that broke the causal chain”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).