HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) – The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled against a man who claimed multiple people allowed him to get intoxicated and fall into a bonfire when he was 20 years old.

The state’s highest court ruled that a trial court properly instructed the jury on contributory negligence in a case brought by Joel Stafford.

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