Lichter v. Scher

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE SCHWARTZ

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from an order sustaining plaintiff Lydia Flores’ motion to strike and dismiss a petition to vacate an ex parte judgment for $25,000 in favor of plaintiff and against Jack Spot Inn, Inc., one of the defendants.

Plaintiff brought this suit under the Dramshop Act to recover damages alleged to have been caused by defendant’s sale of intoxicating liquor to plaintiff’s mother, which resulted in poisoning and subsequent death. Summons issued and was returned by the sheriff as served on one Wakefield, a bartender…