Kennedy Bros. v. Sullivan

This was an action on the case brought by appellee against appellants, and a number of others, saloon keepers, charging them with having sold intoxicating liquors to her husband, Cornelius Sullivan, and causing his intoxication, and that while so intoxicated, and by reason thereof he was killed. The several defendants each pleaded the geueral issue.

Before a trial was reached one of the Kennedy Brothers died, and the suit was dismissed as to Stout, Kapler, Furer, Muldoon and McManus. There have been four trials of the case in the Circuit Court. At the May term, 1887, the jury found Herdklotz…