Riden v. Grimm Bros.

This is a suit for damages sustained by the plaintiff in the death of her husband. Defendants demurred to the declaration filed, which was sustained and the suit dismissed, and plaintiff has appealed and assigned errors.

The declaration alleges that defendants were saloon keepers or retail dealers in liquors in Chattanooga; that her husband, W. H. Riden, had become an habitual drunkard, and this fact was well known to defendants; that, on May 29, 1894, the defendants were duly and lawfully served with written notice not to sell W. H. Riden anything to drink in their saloon, and were forbidden…