Friend v. Campbell

In this case, plaintiffs sued the defendants for damages resulting from a collision between plaintiffs’ vehicle and a vehicle driven by defendant Alfred Jack Campbell. The appellees were sued under the dramshop act, MCL 436.22; MSA 18.993, because they allegedly sold intoxicating liquor to Campbell at a time when he was already intoxicated and the sales were a proximate cause of the plaintiffs’ injuries. At trial, the jury returned a verdict of no cause of action against the dramshop defendants 1 and plaintiffs appeal as of right.

At trial, plaintiffs requested but were denied 2 an instruction…