Court Opinion

ID: 9697937
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 19:37:30.625435+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:36.972328
License: Public Domain

Dissenting Opinion by
Mb. Justice Bell:
Assuming, arguendo, that the majority opinion’s interpretation of the words “wilfully furnishing” is correct, I would affirm the judgment of n.o.v. in favor of. Besnecker. There was no evidence whatever that Foster was intoxicated at the restaurant, or that his intoxication 1% hours after he left the restaurant and at a place 6 miles away from the restaurant, was due to the one or two drinks of beer lié purchased at the restaurant. Manning v. Yokas, 389 Pa. 136, 132 A. 2d 198, is clearly distinguishable. In that case the bartender served “intoxicating beverages” to a 16 year old boy who was drunk when he left the Inn and crashed head-on into a car on the opposite side of the road after he had driven only 8 or 9 blocks.