The opinion of the Court was delivered by O'HERN, J.
This appeal presents a conundrum—a riddle without an apparent solution—in part because of the case's procedural posture. In May 1992, twenty-one-year-old plaintiff Margaret Samuel was returning to the home of her aunt and uncle on Long Beach Island from her college in West Virginia. After the long drive home from West Virginia, she stopped at the Ketch, a tavern on the south end of Long Beach Island...
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