Forsberg v. Around Town Club, Inc.

This is a Dram Shop action in which plaintiff had a verdict and judgment for $1500. The defendants appealed from the order of the trial court overruling motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and for a new trial, and from the judgment.

The complaint is in two counts and charges substantially that Marie Freeman, as executrix, leased the premises at 2131 South Cicero Avenue, Cicero, Illinois to the defendant corporation, knowing that liquor was to be sold therein; that the Corporation’s bartender sold or gave liquor to three patrons who were intoxicated thereby, in consequence of which…