Delta Airlines, Inc. v. Townsend

Because the majority purports to apply a strict construction to the Dram Shop Act, but instead inserts words the legislature never intended, I dissent.

*516In 1985, this Court held that under the common law of this State, a person who furnished alcohol to a noticeably intoxicated person under the legal drinking age, knowing that the minor would soon be driving a car, is liable in tort to a third person injured by the negligence of the intoxicated minor.1 Following that decision, the legislature enacted a statute that broadened the common law remedy. Under the common law rule, no liability attached…