Walker v. Service Liquor Store, Inc.

May a dramshop keeper seek indemnity from an intoxicated person for damages paid by such keeper resulting from the willful, deliberate and malicious acts of an intoxicated person ? Sitting in the first district, this court answered this question in the affirmative. Geocaris v. Bangs, 91 Ill App2d 81, 234 NE2d 17. Here, as there, we deal only with the sufficiency of the complaint seeking indemnity. Here, as there, we must take the facts alleged in the complaint as true. The trial court dismissed the third-party complaint and entered a judgment that the dramshop keeper take nothing by his suit,…