Jewett v. Wanshura
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Jones District Court. This action was commenced against defendant and eight others, under section 1557 of the Code, to recover damages for selling intoxicating liquors to plaintiff’s liusband_ when lie was intoxicated, and when he was sober, thus causing him to become intemperate and drunken, and injuring her in her property and means of support.
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Appeal from Jones District Court. This action was commenced against defendant and eight others, under section 1557 of the Code, to recover damages for selling intoxicating liquors to plaintiff’s liusband_ when lie was intoxicated, and when he was sober, thus causing him to become intemperate and drunken, and injuring her in her property and means of support. The defendants filed a motion that ■ plaintiff be required to state more specifically whether said defendants each kept a separate saloon, and whether each, at his own saloon, by himself, and independently of the others, sold to…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
i. iNTpxioATsale of1 whié (llld 1)661*' damages. I. The court refused to direct the jury “that unless the jury find from the evidence that the defendant sold the said S. Jewett intoxicating liquor, other than ale or beer, within the time specified in the plaintiff’s petition, the jury will find for defendant,” and in substance instructed, that since the adoption of the Code of 1873, which took effect September 1,1873, parties may recover for injuries sustained from intoxication produced by reason of the sale of beer, ale and wine, to persons intoxicated, or who are in the habit of becoming…
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- Meyers v. KirtSupreme Court of Iowa · 1881
- Engleken v. WebberSupreme Court of Iowa · 1877
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