Brodie v. Miller

This is a suit for personal injuries brought by Mark Brodie, Jr., against George Silas, an operator of a public amusement hall in the City of Chattanooga, know as the “Blue Room,” and Ralph E. Miller, Jr., a patron of the amusement hall, to collect damages for personal injuries received by Brodie at the hands of the patron, Ralph E. Miller, Jr., who, in a drunken rage, mistaking the plaintiff Brodie for another, shot and seriously injured him. Judgment was taken against Miller in the lower court from which there is no appeal, but as for the case against the proprietor Silas, the Circuit Judge…