Huffstater v. Hayes

By the Court, Talcott, J.

This action is brought to recover an alleged balance of account. The defendant is a man of some property, residing in Watertown, and has been subject for many years to occasional fits of intoxication, lasting one or two months. The plaintiff keeps a tavern in the neighborhood of the defendant’s residence. The defendant, it appears, has been in the habit of resorting to the plaintiff’s tavern when under the influence of these periodical fits of intoxication, and purchasing and drinking intoxicating liquors on credit, by means of which his intoxication was continued,…