Colburn v. Maynard

Peter B. Arele, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment entered by the Pike County Common Pleas Court in favor of Paul Compher, d.b.a. Tollgate Inn, defendant below and appellee herein, and against Patrick A Colburn, plaintiff below and appellant herein.

Appellant assigns the following error:

“The lower court erred in holding that a liquor permit holder is not liable for a third parties’ injuries, inflicted in the permit holder’s parking lot by an intoxicated patron, on the grounds that the city’s right-of-way over the lot deprives the permit holder of the control necessary to…