People ex rel. Lenand v. Linck

Mr- Presiding Justice Harker

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an action of debt upon a saloon keeper’s bond, brought by William Lenand in the name, of the People, to recover for injuries sustained by him, while in a state of intoxication caused by liquor procured from Adam Linck, the saloon keeper. He alleges in his declaration that he is a man in the habit of getting intoxicated; that Linck sold and gave him liquor from which he became intoxicated, and that, as a consequence, he fell upon the track of the Illino s Central Eailroad, where he was run over by a train and was so injured…