Harris v. Schlink

April 1,1914, Fred Schlink, the appellant, conducted a saloon in Peoria. * There had been a children’s party in the neighborhood that evening, and about ten o’clock they were on their way home by circuitous routes, loitering, laughing and playing after the manner of children. Several of them, including Madeline Harris, the appellee, a girl fourteen years old, passed appellant’s saloon. Another smaller party of children appeared at that point about the same time. Some one violently threw open the front door of the saloon, breaking the glass. Appellant was sitting in a rear room with a retail…