Kreiter v. Nichols

The defendant in error is the wife of Matthew Nichols, and brought suit in the court below to recover of Kreiter the damages sustained by her in being injured in her means of support through the intoxication of her husband, induced by liquors which she alleged Kreiter had furnished him. The suit was brought under an amendment of the prohibitory liquor law, so-called, which was adopted April 18, 1871 [Laws 1871,- Vol. 1, p. 363], and which expressly provides that “every wife, child, parent, guardian, husband or other person, who shall be injured in person, property, means of support or…