Burns v. Bradley

The plaintiff brought suit to recover damages for injuries sustained when he fell over an unmarked embankment on the defendants’ business premises while admittedly intoxicated. The question on appeal is whether the Trial Court {King, J.) erred in directing a verdict for the defendants at the close of the plaintiff’s case. Finding no error, we affirm.

On March 26, 1976, the plaintiff and a friend drove to the Ashuelot Ridge Country Club (the Ridge), a public tavern owned by the defendants, and arrived there at 9:00 P.M. The plaintiff testified that before arriving he consumed “two or three…