Sutton's Adm'r v. Wood
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 4. — ACTION BY NANNIE SUTTON’S ADM’R. AGAINST GLENN C. WOOD AND OTHERS FOR CAUSING THE DEATH OF PLAINTIFF’S INTESTATE BY SELLING HER 'POISON. Appeal from Washington Circuit Court. Charles Patteson, Circuit Judge.
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Case 4. — ACTION BY NANNIE SUTTON’S ADM’R. AGAINST GLENN C. WOOD AND OTHERS FOR CAUSING THE DEATH OF PLAINTIFF’S INTESTATE BY SELLING HER 'POISON. Appeal from Washington Circuit Court. Charles Patteson, Circuit Judge. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals. 1. The first error which we contend the trial court committed was in striking from the petition, on motion of defendants, that portion thereof embraced in brackets and underscored by us that the court may at a glance see the portion striken out, which context is as follows: “Defendant Mudd, instead of selling and furnishing…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Judge 0 ’Rear
Reversing.
Appellees were druggists at Springfield. One of tlieir firm (appellee Mudd) was not a registered pharmacist, nor did he know anything about the mixing of drugs, or technically of their nature and qualities. Mrs. Sutton, through her son, bought of appellees — so the petition charges — a bottle of morphine for medicinal purposes, But instead of delivering *28morphine, it is claimed appellee Mudd Wrapped up and handed young Sutton a bottle of strychnine. Some days later Mrs. Sutton, who was ill, and had been taking morphine under the prescription of a physician,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Monteith v. Kokomo Wood Enameling Co.Indiana Supreme Court · 1902
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- Hatchett v. BlacketerCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1915
- Lancaster Wight v. AllenCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1918
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