Cook v. Kirgan

Mr. Presiding Justice Bartley

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action under the Liquor Control Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1945, ch. 43, par. 135 [Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 68.042]) by the plaintiff, Everett E. Cook and his four minor daughters, against the defendant who is a tavernkeeper, to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by them to their means of support in consequence of the defendant giving or selling intoxicating liquor to the deceased, Kenneth W. Cook, who was the son of the plaintiff Everett E. Cook and the brother of the minor plaintiffs and who was killed by a…