DETRES v. LIONS BUILDING CORPORATION

No. 53 C 1749.

136 F.Supp. 699 (1955)

Euginia Medina DETRES et al. v. LIONS BUILDING CORPORATION et al.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois.

November 21, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Tobias, John J. Riordan, Norval A. Brown, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs, Joseph M. Tobias, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Paul H. Heineke, Clarence R. Conklin, William H. Schrader, Chicago, Ill., for defendants Lions Bldg. Corp. and Herman Jaksch, Heineke & Conklin, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

McKinley & Price, Louis F. Dennen, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Myrtle J. Christie.

Robert L. Brody, George J. Gore, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Paul Koger.


HOFFMAN, District Judge.

This action was brought by four surviving relatives of Juan Hipolito Gonzales Detres who was killed in an automobile accident said to have resulted from the intoxication of the driver of the car in which Detres was a passenger. The defendants are alleged to have sold the liquor which led to the intoxication of the driver and the subsequent accident. The plaintiffs' claim is based on the provisions of the Illinois Dram Shop Act, Ill.Rev.Stat...

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