Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is granted, with costs to abide the event.
We agree with the plaintiff that the trial court's submission of an intoxication charge (see, PJI 2:20) to the jury in this case was erroneous, since the evidence clearly was inadequate to support such an instruction (see, e.g., Vetere v Garcia,
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