Comments on: The Ever-Widening Search For Deep Pockets http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/08/the_everwidenin.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: KipEsquire http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/08/the_everwidenin.html/comment-page-1#comment-1663 KipEsquire Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:08:26 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/08/the_everwidenin.html#comment-1663 <p>You're omitting critical facts. The guy was so falling-down drunk that he couldn't work the pump and the station attendant had to pump the gas for him.</p> <p>Don't start at the end, start at the beginning: would a reasonble person sell gasoline to a visibly intoxicated driver so impaired that he couldn't flip a pump lever?</p> You’re omitting critical facts. The guy was so falling-down drunk that he couldn’t work the pump and the station attendant had to pump the gas for him.

Don’t start at the end, start at the beginning: would a reasonble person sell gasoline to a visibly intoxicated driver so impaired that he couldn’t flip a pump lever?

]]> By: Matt http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/08/the_everwidenin.html/comment-page-1#comment-1662 Matt Sat, 27 Aug 2005 08:31:27 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/08/the_everwidenin.html#comment-1662 <p>There's a semi-credible argument for causation to be made when suing the bar where the drunk driver got drunk...but suing the station that sold him gas?</p> There’s a semi-credible argument for causation to be made when suing the bar where the drunk driver got drunk…but suing the station that sold him gas?

]]> By: Overlawyered http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/08/the_everwidenin.html/comment-page-1#comment-1664 Overlawyered Sat, 27 Aug 2005 03:35:16 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/08/the_everwidenin.html#comment-1664 <strong>Sell gas to drunks, pay for their crashes</strong> "The [Tennessee] Supreme Court has ruled that store owners can be sued for causing injuries in a drunken driving accident if they sold gas to an intoxicated driver." Employees at an Exxon station on Rutledge... Sell gas to drunks, pay for their crashes

“The [Tennessee] Supreme Court has ruled that store owners can be sued for causing injuries in a drunken driving accident if they sold gas to an intoxicated driver.” Employees at an Exxon station on Rutledge…

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