Wendt v. Richter

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Cook County sustaining a motion for summary judgment.

The only issue presented on appeal is whether the trial court erred in allowing the defendant’s motion for summary judgment.

On January 25, 1968, the plaintiff, Ethel Wendt, as administratrix of her deceased husband’s estate, filed an action under Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 43, § 135, commonly known as the Dram Shop Act, against Henrietta Meyers, doing business as Elm Inn, as the operator of the dram shop, and the Lakeview Trust and Savings Bank under Trust No. 2348, as the owner of the…