Kiriluk v. Cohn

PRESIDING JUSTICE KILEY

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action under the Dramshop Act (Ch. 43, § 135, et seq., Ill. Rev. Stat. 1949), by a widow, to recover damages for loss of support as a consequence of the intoxication and death of her husband, whom she shot and killed. The verdict and judgment were for plaintiff for $10,000. Defendants have appealed.

The defendants pose the issue here dramatically as follows: “As a matter of law it is improper to give the plaintiff a $10,000 reward for shooting her husband.” This over simplification begs the real question, whether the trial…