Bier v. Myers

Citations

• 61 Pa. Super. 158
• 1915 Pa. Super. LEXIS 285

Syllabus

<p>Liquor laws — Improper sale of liquors — Death following purchase of liquor — Civil remedy for damages — Acts of May 8, 185k, P. L. 668, and May 18, 1887, P. L. 108.</p> <p>Where a man of knoAvn intemperate habits goes to a liquor saloon “staggering drunk” and is furnished there Avith a number of drinks and leaves the saloon at 10: 30 p. m. in a practically helpless condition, and some hours later his mangled body is found Avith that of his horse on a railroad track eleven hundred feet from any crossing, and the disturbed condition of the roadbed at the point indicated that the deceased Avas riding his horse betvreen the tracks Avhen he Avas struck, the AvidoAV of the deceased is entitled under the Act of May 8, 1854, P. L. 663, to maintain an action against the saloon keeper, and a verdict and judgment in her favor, under the facts as stated, -will be affirmed.</p>