Tinkle v. Sweeney

GAINES, Chief Justice.

This is a certified question from the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth Supreme Judicial District. The statement and question is as follows:

“Appellant brought this suit against M. J. Sweeney, as principal, and C. C. McCarthy and R. S. Legate, as sureties, on a liquor dealer’s bond, for permitting appellant’s minor son to enter and remain.in said Sweeney’s saloon and for selling him intoxicating liquors.

“The facts are that M. J. Sweeney, as a liquor dealer, executed a liquor dealer’s bond under the statute with the parties above named as sureties. The minor, Fred…