Hitchner v. Ehlers
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Benton District Court. The plaintiff recovered a joint judgment for two thousand dollars against the defendants, Hans Ehlers and three others, for injuries alleged to have been sustained by her by reason of the intoxieatjon of her husband produced by the defendants. Defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, J.
The evidence shows that the plaintiff’s husband intentionally took his own life by shooting himself. Among other injuries to her means of support she claims the right to recover for that occasioned by the suicide.
The evidence tends to show the following facts: That on the evening on which the suicide was committed Hitchner was intoxicated; that the intoxication was contributed to by one or more of the defendants, but not by all of them; that the suicide was not so much the result of the particular intoxication in which it was committed, as of a state of mind which originated anterior to the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- La France v. KrayerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1875
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