· 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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