Elder v. Fisher

This case comes to us on petition to transfer from the Appellate Court under the Acts of 1933, ch. 151, § 1, p. 800, being Burns’ Ind. Stat. Anno. § 4-215 (1946 Repl.). See Elder v. Fisher (1965), 205 N. E. 2d 335 for the opinion of the Appellate Court.

This is an action for personal injuries. The plaintiff is suing on behalf of his ward, a minor child, who was rendered a paraplegic from the waist down in an automobile accident. In general, the facts alleged are that the defendant, a retail druggist, sold liquor to one Robert R. Hellwig, a boy 17 years of age. The plaintiff alleges that the…