McNary v. Blackburn

This is an action brought under Pub. Sts. c. 100, § 21, by the parents of Dennis McNary, for an injury in their means of support in consequence of his intoxication, alleging it to have been caused by the defendant. The case is here on exceptions to the judge’s refusal to make certain rulings requested. Two of these were, in substance, that the plaintiffs had no right or legal claim to support from their son, and that the injury was too remote, and that therefore the action could not be maintained ; a third that the plaintiffs could not recover without proving their poverty and dependence upon…