Sullivan v. Townsend

How courts have described this case

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• finding defendants who provided alcohol to plaintiffs husband, a known alcoholic, liable for loss of consortium to plaintiff
• finding defendants who provided alcohol to plaintiff's husband, a known alcoholic, liable for loss of consortium to plaintiff
• surveying pre-statehood caselaw on the subject and creating a narrow exception to dram-shop nonliability
• overruled on other grounds by Ontiveros v. Borak, 136 Ariz. 500, 667 P.2d 200 (1983)
• court found liability based on server’s knowledge of imbiber’s alcoholism
• statute prohibiting the sale of liquor to an intoxicated person

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).