Opinion
December 26, 1991
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Cayuga County, Corning, J.
Present — Denman, P.J., Doerr, Boomer, Pine and Balio, JJ.
Order unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed without costs, in accordance with the following Memorandum: Plaintiffs appeal from an order granting defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing plaintiffs' negligence and Dram Shop claims. The Dram Shop cause of action should not have been dismissed. In opposition to defendants' motion, plaintiffs raised a triable issue of fact on that cause of action. They adduced competent eyewitness and expert opinion testimony tending to establish, circumstantially, that decedent was intoxicated at the time he was sold alcoholic beverages (cf., Fiegl v 1695 Ridge Rd. Webster Inn Rest., 162 A.D.2d 1024, 1025; see also, Scheu v High-Forest Corp., 129 A.D.2d 366, 368, 371). Accordingly, the order is modified to deny defendants' motion in part and to reinstate plaintiffs' fourth cause of action.