Seminara v. Grisman

I am informed that alcoholic intoxication may in intensity extend from a state of conscious exhilaration to a condition of insensible torpidity. Adopting that postulate, I proceed to determine whether in the factual circumstances of this cause the alleged intoxication of the defendant, if any, on the particular occasion had advanced to such a degree as to now enable her to avoid her contractual obligation.

On the 28th day of March, 1945, the defendant, a widow apparently of middle age, acquired by purchase a residential property in the Borough of Jamesburg, in the County of Middlesex, at the…