Paulson v. Langness

Citations

• 16 S.D. 471
• 93 N.W. 655
• 1903 S.D. LEXIS 108

Syllabus

<p>Laws 1897, e. 72, § 6, provides that a licensed dealer in intoxicating liquor shall give a bond conditioned that he shall pay all damages adjudged to any person for injury in person, property, or means of support, etc., by reason of selling, furnishing, etc., such liquor. Section 16 provides that a wife may institute suit in her own name on the bond of a licensed dealer, for loss of ij,er support. Held, that to render a liquor dealer civilly liable to a wife for the sale of liquor to her husband, occasioning an accident resulting in his death, the liquor dealer , must have possessed a license, an unlicensed dealer not being so liable.</p>