Snyder v. Hunter Room, Inc.

This is an action by plaintiff for damages re- suiting from personal injuries suffered while a patron of defendant’s bar. A judgment was entered for plaintiff pursuant to a jury verdict, but the trial court, upon defendant’s application, granted defendant a new trial. Plaintiff appeals from the order granting the new trial.

The facts of the case are relatively unimportant to this appeal. Plaintiff, while a patron of defendant’s bar, was severely beaten by motorcycle chains and cut by a beer can opener and broken glass by three other patrons when he went to the aid of a woman who was being…