Johnson v. Johnson

Defendants appeal from a judgment of $200, rendered in an action based upon sales of intoxicating liquor to plaintiffs husband, who was a painter by trade. He was a temperate man, but acquired a taste for liquor through its use for a medicine, — it having been prescribed by a physician, — and plaintiff found it necessary to serve notice upon saloon keepers not to sell to him. On July 23 and 24 he bought some liquor of defendant Johnson, and became intoxicated. There is evidence that he continued under the influence of liquor until August 9, when he was arrested and put in jail for…