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· 6/12/1981

O'HANLEY v. Ninety-Nine, Inc.

Citations

  • 421 N.E.2d 1217
  • 12 Mass. App. Ct. 64
  • 1981 Mass. App. LEXIS 1110

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • proximate causation of injuries to drunken patron injured while dancing on the bar
  • inference of obvious intoxication could be drawn from evidence that patron consumed at least fifteen beers and six martinis
  • “the question of the proximate cause of the plaintiff’s injury is one for the jury”
  • “[T]he question of the proximate cause of the plaintiffs injury is one for the jury”
  • consumption of fifteen beers and six martinis sufficient to infer that individual \would have displayed some outward manifestation of intoxication\
  • degree of intoxication is evidence of negligence which is to be weighed by the jury in determining percentages of negligence to be assigned under comparative negligence statute

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Judges: Grant, Hale, Smith

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