Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1911 — MRS. JULIA DAY SUES CEDAR LAKE SALOONKEEPER. [ARTICLE]

MRS. JULIA DAY SUES CEDAR LAKE SALOONKEEPER.

Through Dunlap & Parkinson Action Is Brought for Damages for Bay Day’s Broken Leg. Readers of The Republican will remember that Ray Day, son of Mrs. Julia Day, of this place, came home from Cedar Lake several weeks ago with a broken leg, following a bum to that place, in which several Rensselaer boys participated. They reluctantly told that Ray had been intoxicated and that saloonkeeper who had sold him the liquor had also broken his leg. Mrs. Day has now brought action against the saloonkeeper and his bondsmen, according to the following article from the Crown Point Star: Mrs. Julia Day, of Jasper county, in behalf of her minor son, Ray Day, filed suit in the circuit court on Monday, asking >3,000 damages against John Mitch, a Cedar Lake saloon keeper, and also brings in the bondsmen, Mark Webber and Perkins Turner as parties to the suit. Mrs. Day alleges in her complaint that during the early part of April, this year, that her son Ray, who is a minor, and in company with Walter Wiseman, another boy, went into the saloon of Mitch and that the proprietor sold the boys whiskey until-they both became intoxicated. She further alleges that her son was so intoxicated that he went to sleep in a chair, and while Mitch was attempting to lift him from the seat the boy, being so exhausted from the effects of the liquor, fell and broke his leg. The limb, according to the plaintiff, will always be an inch short during the balance of his life. Dunlap & Parkinson, attorneys at Rensselaer, are appearing for the plaintiff, Mrs. Day.