Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1901 — Must Pay This Drunkard's Widow. [ARTICLE]

Must Pay This Drunkard's Widow.

A jury in the t state circuit court at Sioux Falls, S. D., awarded Mrs. Mary Garrigan of that city a verdict for SI,BOO damages against Samuel Kennedy, a Dell Falls saloonkeeper. The plaintiff's husband committed suiqide after a prolonged spree. This is the first case brought under that section of the new state license law prohibiting the sale of liquor to habitual drunkards. Mrs. Garrison has similar cases pending against two other Dell Rapids saloonkeepers.