Sweenor v. 162 State Street, Inc.

In this action of tort the plaintiff seeks to recover for injuries he sustained while he was a patron in the drinking establishment of the defendant known as the “Driftwood Lounge.” This case is before us on the plaintiff’s exception to the trial judge’s allowance of the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict.

On the evening of December 8, 1967, the plaintiff entered the premises of the defendant and proceeded to the bar which “was roughly oval in shape. There were some twenty or thirty stools around the bar plus a few tables and booths near the . . . entrance. . . . [He] passed three…