Torts: Basic Fluency in a Fundamental Legal Language (Revised for Fall '24)

Resource 4 . 4 . 2 . 2 . 2

16 minutes

Kelly v. Sinclair Oil Corp. ("The Drunken Chain of Events Case")

Jordan Wallace-Wolf

Is the court correct that proximate cause was lacking here as a matter of law? (note also that this case was overruled in Thompson v. Kaczinski, below)

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