Dolan v. McLaughlin
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error from the district court of Gage county. Tried below before Babcock, J. The opinion contains a statement of the case. The court erred in giving the tenth paragraph of the instructions asked by plaintiff. (Elshire v. Schuyler, 15 Neb., 561; Ramiz v. Barnes, 40 O. St., 45; Emory v. Addis, 71 Ill., 273; 3 Am. & Eng. Ency.
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Error from the district court of Gage county. Tried below before Babcock, J. The opinion contains a statement of the case. The court erred in giving the tenth paragraph of the instructions asked by plaintiff. (Elshire v. Schuyler, 15 Neb., 561; Ramiz v. Barnes, 40 O. St., 45; Emory v. Addis, 71 Ill., 273; 3 Am. & Eng. Ency. Law, 258.) Where several persons contribute to the intoxication and injury in a single fit of intoxication, they are jointly liable, but where the injury complained of consists of separable and well-defined individual acts, or where the iDjuiy complained of is furnishing…
1Opinion of the Court
Ryan, C.
This action was originally brought in the district court-of Gage county by Rosa McLaughlin on her own behalf,, as widow of John McLaughlin, and on behalf of the-minor children of said John McLaughlin. The defendants were the members of the firm of John J. Patterson & Co. and the sureties on the bond of said firm given in compliance with the requirements of chapter 50, Compiled Statutes. Subsequently an amended petition was filed in which as defendants were added the names of William II. *452Dolan as principal and J. H. Reynolds and E. P. Reynolds, Jr., as sureties on a bond of the same…
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