Mother Wants $3,000 Damages

Mother Wants $3,000 Damages

Sues Two Saloon Keepers For Selling Liquor

To Her Minors Son

Saloonists Also Have Criminal Charge Against Them- Several Boys Involved In the Matter.

Mrs. Ella Schroeder, through her attorney, Frank A. Stivers, has commenced action against Edmund Clancy and Ernest Paul and their bondsmen for civil damages, charging them with selling intoxicating liquors to her minor son, Charles Schroeder, a lad some twelve years of age. The damage is laid at $3,000 in each case.

Charles Schroeder is one of several young boys who while attending a party some time ago are alleged to have gone out and got liquor on which they got into a most unsatisfactory condition. Criminal charges were preferred against the before-mentioned saloon keepers and when brought before Justice Doty they were bound over to the circuit court for trial. This case is now pending.

Mrs. Schroeder now brings action against them for civil damages under the act known as the Civil Damages Act which involves the bondsmen as well as the principals. The bondsmen are, for Paul, Gottlieb Andres and John Berger, for Clancy, Jacob Dupper and Martin Seabolt.

Mrs. Schroeder is the only one of the parents who has thus for commenced civil proceedings against the saloon keepers.