Alcohol Provider Can Be Charged with Intentional Injury, Says Georgia Court, Sept. 16, 1923

Alcohol Provider Held Responsible

Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 15—“Where a person with knowledge that liquor contains the poisonous and deleterious ingredient known as wood alcohol, furnished same to another, or places it where he knows that such other person will find it and drink it, that person is liable for the wilful and intentional injury of the victim,” the Georgia court of appeals today held in granting Mrs. Catherine Britol of Baltimore, a new trial of her $150,000 damage suit against John Kelley, Atlanta capitalist.

From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, Sept. 16, 1923