Merhi v. Becker

How courts have described this case

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• defining harm of general nature as ‘‘harm to patrons from inade- quately deterred raucous, violent conduct’’
• the fundamental injury to all proximate cause questions is whether the harm which occurred was of the same general nature as the foreseeable risk created by the defendant's negligence
• jury could find that defendant sponsor of picnic proximately caused plaintiff invitee’s injuries by serving alcohol to invitees and failing to hire adequate security; intentional act of other invitee in driving his vehicle into plaintiff not intervening cause as matter of law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).