Baker v. Hannan
| Decision Date | 22 November 1963 |
| Docket Number | No. 63-0-16,63-0-16 |
| Citation | 44 Ill.App.2d 157,194 N.E.2d 563 |
| Parties | Clifford BAKER and Joan Simpson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Robert HANNAN, Jr., and Ed. Zbornak, Sr., d/b/a Cotton's and Porky's Tavern, and Margaret Wilkens, and Belleville Amvets Post 207, and Ella Daab, Defendants-Appellees. |
| Court | United States Appellate Court of Illinois |
Russell H. Classen, Belleville, for appellants.
Wagner, Conner, Ferguson, Bertrand & Baker, E. St. Louis, for Belleville Amvets Post 207.
Arthur W. Peth, Belleville, Wilson, Siebert, Lynaugh & Abney, Springfield, Bernard Bertrand, E. St. Louis, John P. Lynaugh, Springfield, of counsel, for Ella Daab.
Appellants, Clifford Baker and Joan Simpson, appeal from the dismissal of their action as against defendants in this cause, as the result of the granting of a motion for directed verdict by the Circuit Court of St. Clair County. The action was brought under the Illinois Dram Shop Act for damages for personal injuries received in an automobile collision as the result of the alleged intoxication of one Roland Isslehardt. The evidence disclosed that the plaintiffs went to the taverns named as defendants on the evening of April 25, 1958 and drank in one tavern (Cotton's and Porky's Tavern) where Roland Isslehardt bought one or more glasses of beer for the plaintiffs. Later in the same evening, at the tavern operated by Belleville Amvets Post 207, plaintiffs again were in the company of Roland Isslehardt and Roland again bought them at least one drink. After they left the second tavern, with plaintiff Clifford Baker driving and Mrs. Simpson as a passenger in his automobile, they became involved in a collision with a car driven by Roland Isslehardt. There was evidence that Isslehardt was driving his automobile while intoxicated.
The question which was specifically raised on trial of this cause was whether plaintiffs who spent considerable time drinking in the company of the person who was alleged to be an intoxicated person under the Dram Shop Act and consumed intoxicating liquors which he purchased for them, should be allowed to recover from tavern keepers who sold them the intoxicating liquors.
The Trial Court allowed a motion for directed verdict at the close of plaintiffs' case. The Courts of this State have clearly established that under the Illinois Dram Shop Act a person who participates in procuring the intoxication of the person who committed the act about which complaint...
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