California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Cole v. Rush, 289 P.2d 450, 45 Cal.2d 345, 54 A.L.R.2d 1137 (Cal. 1955):
In the first place, it appears that in Lammers v. Pacific Electric Ry. Co. (1921), supra, 186 Cal. 379, 384, 199 P. 523, this court stated and relied on the general rule that 'the sale of intoxicating luquor is not the proximate cause of injuries subsequently received by the purchaser because of his intoxication.' In that case the plaintiff, while intoxicated, was ejected from defendant's passenger train; he left the place of immediate peril where he was ejected but later returned to the tracks at a point about three-quarters of a mile away
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