Butler v. Wittland

JUDGE CARROLL

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action under the Dramshop Act against the operators of three taverns located in the City of Quincy, Allinois.

The substantive allegations of the complaint are that the defendants in their respective taverns, sold or gave intoxicating liquors to one Lowell Munns which, caused his intoxication; that while thus intoxicated and as the result thereof he drove his automobile upon a certain highway in the State of Missouri in such a manner as to bring said automobile into collision with an automobile owned and operated by plaintiff Jesse…