Byrd v. Tate

This is a default judgment case.

The plaintiffs sued the defendant Byrd and others. As against Byrd, they alleged in substance that he unlawfully sold spirituous liquors or beverages to a minor defendant, who, as a consequence, became intoxicated, which intoxication caused the automobile which she was driving and in which the minor plaintiff was riding, to leave the roadway, overturn, and strike an embankment, thereby injuring the minor plaintiff and causing damages to the other plaintiff, who was the minor plaintiff's mother.

Byrd was served with a summons and a copy of the complaint on…