Kellerman v. Arnold

This was an action on the case, brought to the circuit court of Coles county, by Piicebe Arnold against John Kellerman, under the fifth section of the Liquor Law, so called, in which, on a trial by jury, the plaintiff had a verdict of fifteen hundred dollars as damages.

To reverse this judgment, the defendant appeals and assigns several errors, the most important of which áre, that the verdict is against the law and the evidence, that the damages are excessive, that punitive damages were given when no actual damages were proved, and in giving erroneous instructions.

We have so fully examined…