BUCHANAN v. MERGER ENTERPRISES, INC.

83-370.

463 So.2d 121 (1984)

Buehl B. BUCHANAN v. MERGER ENTERPRISES, INC.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied January 11, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Bruce Hall of Conaway, Hall, Carter & Bledsoe, Dothan, for appellant.

Jack R. Thompson, Jr. of Kracke, Woodward & Thompson and Thomas E. Ellis of Kracke, Thompson & Ellis, Birmingham, for appellee.


FAULKNER, Justice.

The plaintiff, Buehl B. Buchanan, appeals from a summary judgment in favor of Merger Enterprises, Inc., doing business as the Checkers Lounge. The issue in this case is whether the personal representative of an individual killed by a drunken driver should be allowed to bring an action against a lounge which continued to serve alcohol to a patron after he had become visibly intoxicated, when the lounge's employees knew or should have known that the...

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