Boehm v. Kish

The principal issue1 in this appeal is whether evidence of the defendants’ reckless service of alcohol to the plaintiff, the plaintiff’s intoxication, and the severe injuries subsequently sustained by the plaintiff while operating his automobile are sufficient to support an inference of causation in fact between the injuries and the defendants’ actions, absent testimony or other evidence that explicitly concerned the nature of the accident that produced those injuries. We conclude that the plaintiff’s failure to present any evidence of how the accident occurred in support of the causal…