Belding v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Torts. Negligence. Damages. Before Judge Van Epps. City court of Atlanta. June term, 1890. Mrs. Belding, as the wife of Neal Belding, sued Johnson and Whitlock for $20,000 damages, making the following allegations : About nine o’clock in the morning of April 26, 1889, her husband and Whitlock met in -the bar-room of Johnson and drank intoxicating liquors together, and soon became engaged in a dispute which ended at that meeting in the bet of a watcb, which her husband…
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Torts. Negligence. Damages. Before Judge Van Epps. City court of Atlanta. June term, 1890. Mrs. Belding, as the wife of Neal Belding, sued Johnson and Whitlock for $20,000 damages, making the following allegations : About nine o’clock in the morning of April 26, 1889, her husband and Whitlock met in -the bar-room of Johnson and drank intoxicating liquors together, and soon became engaged in a dispute which ended at that meeting in the bet of a watcb, which her husband agreed, at the suggestion of Whitlock, should be held by one Sloan, a clerk iu the bar-room. Her husband and Whitlock then…
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Jnstice.
Under the facts alleged iu the declaration, which will be found set out in the official report, there was no error in sustaining the demurrer and dismissing the case. Under these facts, we do not think Johnson was liable to the widow of Belding on account of her husband’s having been killed by Whitlock in Johnson’s bar-room. The declaration alleges that Johnson sold liquor to these parties in the forenoou, and that the quarrel between the latter then originated, in regard to a wager they had made;-yet the homicide did not occur until the afternoon, when Belding again entered…
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