What is the test for liability for furnishing alcoholic beverages to an intoxicated person?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Zink v. Clock Towers Inn, LLC, 2d Civil No. B262414 (Cal. App. 2016):
incurred as a result of furnishing alcoholic beverages to an intoxicated person"].) "The law which bars liability for a host who furnishes alcoholic beverages applies with even greater force where, as in this case, the host . . . did not furnish the alcoholic beverage, appellant did." (Andre v. Ingram (1985) 164 Cal.App.3d 206, 208.)
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