Huff v. Aultman
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from PolTc Circuit Court. Action for damages on account of the injury to plaintiff’s means of support caused by the intoxication of her husband. Two causes of action are alleged in the petition.
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Appeal from PolTc Circuit Court. Action for damages on account of the injury to plaintiff’s means of support caused by the intoxication of her husband. Two causes of action are alleged in the petition. In the first count it is charged that for a long time prior to the fifth day of Febuary, 1881, plaintiff’s husband had been an habitual drunkard, and that on that day defendants sold him certain intoxicating liquors, thereby causing him to become intoxicated, and that while lie was so intoxicated be fell from a bridge and was killed, it is alleged in the second count that during the five years…
1Opinion of the Court
Eeép, J.
Defendants are the proprietors of a brewery in
the city of Des Moines, and at the time'in question they kept a bar in their building at which they sold beer by the glass. It was proved on the trial that on the evening of the fifth of Eeburary, 1884, plaintiff’s husband was at the brewery, and that he then purchased and drank one or more glasses of beer. • It was also proved that for two years before his death he had been in the habit of becoming intoxicated nearly every day, and there was evidence which tended to prove that he was intoxicated on the evening in question, -He left…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Woolheather v. RisleySupreme Court of Iowa · 1874
- Engleken v. HilgerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1876
- Myers v. ConwaySupreme Court of Iowa · 1880
3Cited by2 opinions
- League v. EhmkeSupreme Court of Iowa · 1903
- Lee ex rel. Lee v. HedermanSupreme Court of Iowa · 1912