Walsh v. Murphy

KELTON, J.,

This is a suit against - a tavern owner (Daniel B. Murphy and Mary Ann Golden t/a L’il Caesar’s Bar), hereinafter defendant, by a patron who was stabbed in defendant’s parking lot by another patron. Plaintiff’s claim of liability was based on the common-law duty of an innkeeper or tavern owner to protect his guests from harm and also on section 493 of the Liquor Code.* That section forbids a licensee to permit liquor to be sold to a visibly intoxicated person. The jury found that defendant’s causal negligence was 60 percent, that plaintiff’s causal negligence was 40 percent and…