Cronk v. Gieseke

This is an appeal by the complainants, who filed their bill in equity, to which the defendant interposed a general demurrer, which was sustained and an order entered dismissing the bill for want of equity.

The suit was based on section 10 of the Dramshop Act, approved March 30, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, Cahill’s Ill. St. ch. 43, p. 1482; and complainants sought under the provisions of that statute to subject the premises owned by the defendant to the lien of a judgment which they had theretofore obtained against one Louis Sickert to recover damages for injury to their means of support, the…