Hughes v. State ex rel. Sutton
Indiana Court of Appeals
Prom Jefferson Circuit Court; Hiram Francisco, Judge. Action by the State of Indiana on the relation of Luther Sutton against William Hughes and another. Prom a judgment for plaintiff, the defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtIbach, J.
— This was an action under §8355 Burns 1908, §5323 R. S. 1881, by relator Luther Sutton, a minor, on the bond of appellant Hughes, as a licensed saloon-keeper, to recover damages sustained by reason of his selling liquor unlawfully to Charles Sutton, father of relator. The substance of the charge in the complaint is that on July 4,1906, appellant Hughes sold liquor to Charles Sutton when the latter was intoxicated, which Sutton drank, and from the effects of which he became more thoroughly intoxicated, irritable, uncontrollable and unable to distinguish right from wrong, and that while in…
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