Massachusetts Appeals Court September 28, 2000, No. 98-P-481 (Westerback v. Harold F. LeClair Co.)

Armstrong, C.J.

After consuming between ten and a dozen twelve-ounce bottles of beer in the course of a day, the plaintiff went to a local package store at approximately 7 p.m. and bought two additional bottles of beer. She was drinking them outside the store when she met an acquaintance who invited her to accompany him to the defendant’s tavern, Gus and Paul’s. She arrived at about 8 p.m.