N.Y. General Obligations Law § 11-101: Compensation for injury caused by the illegal sale of intoxicating liquor

§ 11-101. Compensation for injury caused by the illegal sale of

intoxicating liquor. 1. Any person who shall be injured in person,

property, means of support, or otherwise by any intoxicated person, or

by reason of the intoxication of any person, whether resulting in his

death or not, shall have a right of action against any person who shall,

by unlawful selling to or unlawfully assisting in procuring liquor for

such intoxicated person, have caused or contributed to such

intoxication; and in any such action such person shall have a right to

recover actual and exemplary damages.

2. In case of the death of either party, the action or right of action

given by this section shall survive to or against his or her executor or

administrator, and the amount so recovered by either a husband, wife or

child shall be his or her sole and separate property.

3. Such action may be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction.

4. In any case where parents shall be entitled to such damages, either

the father or mother may sue alone therefor, but recovery by one of such

parties shall be a bar to suit brought by the other.