Brockway v. Patterson
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kent. (Montgomery, J.) Case under “civil damage act." Both parties bring-error. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorse, J.
The plaintiff brought her action in this case under Act No. 191, Laws of 1883, known as the “ Civil Damage Act," claiming damages by injury to her means of support as the wife of Adous Brockway, who, it is alleged, by reason of his own intoxication and the intoxication of one Louis Lane, received injuries at the hands of said Lane resulting in death; both of said persons receiving the liquor which caused such intoxication from the defendant, an hotel keeper at Cascade, Kent county, in this State.
The cause was tried in the Kent circuit b'efore a jury, and the plaintiff had verdict and judgment…
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