Royal Oak cleared of wrongdoing in drunk patron's death

A Divisional Court appeal panel says staff at the Royal Oak pub in Orléans took “reasonable and adequate” steps to cut off and remove a drunk patron who later died in a nearby snow bank.
The body of the man — he’s identified in court documents only as S.S. — was found covered in snow on a well-used path behind the Royal Oak three days after he left the St. Joseph Boulevard bar.
An exact time of death could not be established.
The man lived only 400 metres fro