Legal Opinion

Shugart v. Egan

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1876PublishedCited by 34 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lee county; the Hon. William W. Heaton, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the Court

Hr. Justice Scholfield

delivered the opinion of the Court:

Since a rehearing was ordered in the present case, we have again considered the objections urged to the rulings of the court below, and have come to a different conclusion from that announced in the opinion first filed, upon the question of damages resulting from the death of the plaintiff’s husband.

It is claimed that the plaintiff’s husband, while in a state of intoxication caused by liquors obtained by him from the defendant Friel, insulted or menaced one HcGraw, who thereupon stabbed him, inflicting a wound whereof he died shortly…

2Cited by34 opinions

  1. Andrews & Co. v. KinselSupreme Court of Georgia · 1901
  2. Mead v. . StrattonNew York Court of Appeals · 1882
  3. Henderson v. Dade Coal Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1897
  4. Schroder v. CrawfordIllinois Supreme Court · 1880
  5. Casey v. BurnsAppellate Court of Illinois · 1955

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