SPATZ v. RIVERDALE GREENTREE RESTAURANT, INC.


256 A.D.2d 207 (1998)

682 N.Y.S.2d 370

MATTHEW SPATZ, Appellant, v. RIVERDALE GREENTREE RESTAURANT, INC., et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided December 22, 1998.


Plaintiff sought compensatory and exemplary damages under the "Dram Shop" laws (General Obligations Law § 11-101; Alcoholic Beverage Control Law § 65) for serious head and facial injuries sustained when defendant Joseph Stanton, an allegedly intoxicated patron at the bar of defendant Riverdale Greentree Restaurant, assaulted him; plaintiff also raised common law claims that Greentree and its bartender acted negligently and with reckless disregard in failing to protect...

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