Cope v. Gepford

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Plaintiff Beryl Cope (the former wife of Arthur K. Cope, deceased), and Roland F. Cope, the son of Beryl Cope and Arthur Cope, instituted this suit against Alice Grepford, doing business as “A. C. Inn,” and John Stephen Dennis, the owner of the tavern building, to recover damages under the civil liability provisions of the Liquor Control Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1943, ch. 43, par. 135 [Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 68.042]) for injury to the means of support of both plaintiffs because of the alleged habitual intoxication of Arthur Cope in his lifetime, and by reason of the death of Arthur…