Fulton v. Gauthier

This is an action of tort for personal injuries to a wife, the female plaintiff, allegedly sustained due to the gross negligence of the defendant in the operation of a motor vehicle. Her husband, the male plaintiff, seeks to recover consequential damages.

The plaintiffs and the defendant and his wife had spent two hours in a local tap in the course of which both the male plaintiff and the defendant drank twelve to fourteen eight ounce glasses of beer. The female plaintiff did no drinking. The distance between the plaintiffs’ home and the tap was several blocks or several minutes’ ride and the…