Reilly v. Tiergarten Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding court’s failure to make legal determination of proximate cause before sending case to jury constitutes error of law
• holding establishment serving liquor to minor breached duty under Dram Shop Act; however, minor’s subsequent assaults on his father and police, as well as subsequent wounds suffered from police shots fired, were not natural and probable results of defendant’s failure to comply with Act
• “[t]o satisfy the requirement of causation, the complainant must demonstrate that the breach was both the proximate cause and the actual cause” of the injury
• “the breach of a statutory duty does not establish a cause of action in negligence, absent proof of causation.... ”
• trial court’s failure to make legal determination of proximate cause before sending case to jury constituted error
• “[t]o satisfy the requirement of causation, the complainant must demonstrate that the breach was both the proximate cause and the actual cause” of the injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).