Jury v. Ogden
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—Action under the dramshop act. In the Circuit Court of Edgar County; the Hon. Edward P. Vail, Judge, presiding. Trial by jury; verdict and judgment for plaintiff; error by defendants. Heard in this court at the May term, 1894.
1Opinion of the Court
Hr. Justice Pleasants
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This action was commenced by appellee on August 21, 1893, under the dramshop act, against the keeper of a liquor saloon, and the owner of the premises who leased them for that purpose, for alleged injury in her person and means of support caused by the intoxication of her father produced by liquor sold to him by said keeper. She obtained a judgment for §1,200, which the defendants by the writ of error, here prosecuted, seek to reverse.
It was shown that when she brought the action she was about twenty-five years of age, unmarried, and had…
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