Andrews v. Wells

Opinion

SPARKS, J.

The question in this appeal is whether a bartender and his employer breached a duty of care by failing to act on an inebriated customer’s request to arrange transportation home. The answer depends on whether they had a duty to act and that in turn depends on whether they had established a special relationship with the customer. Finding no such relationship or duty under the undisputed facts of this case, we affirm the judgment of dismissal.

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