Veon v. Creaton

Citations

• 138 Pa. 48
• 20 A. 865
• 1890 Pa. LEXIS 1236

Syllabus

<p>[To be reported.]</p> <p>(a) A father incurred expenditures of money and loss of time, in and about the nursing, care and cure of his unmarried adult son, who, while not sustaining a family relation or that of a servant to his father, had received personal injuries in consequence of the furnishing to him of intoxicating drinks, in violation of § 3, act of May 8, 1854, P. L. 663:</p> <p>1. The father was not a person “aggrieved” by the unlawful furnishing of liquors to the son, within the meaning of § 3 of said act, so as to have a right of action for such expenditures and loss of time; nor could he found a right of recovery, under the act, upon the ground that the son’s injury increased the probability of the father ultimately becoming liable for his support under the poor laws.</p> <p>2. The fact that the son regarded his father’s house as his home, occasionally spent some time there, paying board, and contributed part of his earnings to the father in return for the cost of his education, is not sufficient evidence of a subsisting family relation; what the effect of such a relation, continued from the time of the son’s arrival at age to the time of the injury, would have been, not decided.</p>