Janesovsky v. Rathman

Goss, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, the widow and minor children of Ben Janesovsky, brought this action for loss of means of support caused by the death of the husband and father in an automobile accident shortly after midnight of July 19, 1919. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiffs for $8,958, and defendants appealed.

This action was brought under the 1917 liquor law (Laws 1917, ch. 187). It expressly repealed sections 3814 to 3891 of the Revised Statutes for 1913, commonly called the “Slocumb Law.” The pertinent portions of the present act are as follows:

*167“Section 52. Any wife, child,…