Murphy v. Gould

This action was brought in the court below by Mary J. Gould, for herself and her minor children, against the principals and sureties upon two liquor dealers’ bonds to recover damages for loss of means of support occasioned by the sale of intoxicating liquors by P. B. Murphy & Son and Henry Harrison, the principals in said bonds, to Willard Gould, the husband of said plaintiff. The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment against the defendants for the sum of $500, to reverse which the saloon-keepers, and their bondsmen prosecute error to this court.

The first' three assignments of error relate…