Edens v. Fletcher
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Wyandotte court of common pleas; Wiliam U. Holt, judge. STATEMENT. The plaintiff, Carrie Edens, sued John J. Fletcher and twelve other defendants, including the municipality of Kansas City, Kan., and the mayor and chief of police of that city, for damages resulting from the intoxication of her husband by liquors sold to him by the defendants at a place where it is alleged they maintained a common nuisance.
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Error from Wyandotte court of common pleas; Wiliam U. Holt, judge. STATEMENT. The plaintiff, Carrie Edens, sued John J. Fletcher and twelve other defendants, including the municipality of Kansas City, Kan., and the mayor and chief of police of that city, for damages resulting from the intoxication of her husband by liquors sold to him by the defendants at a place where it is alleged they maintained a common nuisance. It is also alleged that the defendant brewing companies furnished the liquors for such unlawful purpose; that the city received a sum each month from its codefendants in…
1Opinion of the Court
*142The opinion of the court was delivered by
Benson, J.:
The plaintiff alleges that the court erred in hearing the motion over her objection, and in holding that upon the stipulation and the payment therein acknowledged the motion should be allowed. The defendant Fletcher, who. alone made the motion and obtained the order of dismissal, contends that the remaining defendants, having been sued as joint wrong-doers with the brewing company and Kremer, were released by the settlement so made with them, upon the principle that the release of one or inore of several joint wrong-doers releases all.…
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