Skaug v. Johnson

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SEIDENFELD

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendants, as the operators of a tavern (hereinafter Tenstopet) appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff in the amount of $8,500 based on the jury’s verdict in plaintiff’s action under the Illinois Liquor Control Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 43, par. 135.) Defendants contend that the verdict and judgment are not sustained by the evidence and that trial errors were committed which require a new trial.

Plaintiff testified that on August 22, 1964, he was struck with a beer bottle by another patron of Tenstopet who was…