Murphy v. Willow Springs Brewing Co.

Calkins, C.

This was an action by the plaintiff as administrator of his deceased son, James A. Murphy, against the defendant, a licensed liquor dealer of the city of Omaha, and its bondsmen. It was alleged in the petition that on the 22d day of July, 1905, James A. Murphy, a boy of 18 years of age, went to the brewery of the defendant, who there unlawfully and wrongfully sold him large quantities of beer, from which he became intoxicated; and that while so intoxicated, and while rendered incapable of taking care of *224himself by such intoxication, lie went upon a near-by railroad track, and was…