Palmer v. Holthaus

This is an appeal on questions of law from the Hamilton County Municipal Court wherein judgment was rendered against the defendant in a suit for personal injuries.

Plaintiff-appellee was a patron in a tavern operated by defendant-appellant, and on the evening in question admits to having been “fairly” intoxicated. While plaintiff was standing in the rear of the barroom, a scuffle between two other patrons occurred in the front and plaintiff moved toward it. His course of movement was across an area where linoleum was in process of being installed and, because the job was incomplete, there was…