Legal Opinion
Sorensen v. Jarvis
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Decided June 28, 1984No. 83-1821, 83-1834PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHeffernan, C.J.
These cases are before us on appeal from judgments of the circuit court for Racine county, James Wilbershide, Circuit Judge, dismissing the complaints because they fail to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.
The question here is whether a third party injured by an intoxicated minor has a common law negligence action against a retail seller for the negligent sale of an intoxicating beverage to a person the seller knew or should have known was a minor and whose consumption of the alcohol was a cause of the accident.
Based on a series of cases of this court holding that the cause of…
2Cases cited61 opinions
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- Dimick v. SchiedtSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
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