When a restaurant owner is held responsible for a bar patron’s
injury or death, it’s usually because the bar served him or her too much
alcohol. But what happened in Mueller v
Brannigan Brothers Restaurants & Taverns, LLC, is more like
something out of a movie. This published Michigan Court of Appeals decision
asked whether the restaurant could be held responsible when its employees (or
former employees) chased down a bar patron and beat him to death. The question
was closer than you might think.
