Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1911 — SUIT FOR $3,000 DAMAGES. [ARTICLE]

SUIT FOR $3,000 DAMAGES.

Cedar Lake Saloon Keeper Made Defendant for Injury to Minor. Mrs. Julia Day, of Jasper county, in behalf of her rriinor son Ray Day, filed syit 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 Perking Turner as parties to the suit. Mrs. Day alleges in her com-r plaint 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 shorter during the balance of his life. Dunlap & Parkinson, attorneys at Rensselaer, are appearing for the plaintiff, Mrs. Day.—Crown Point Star.