Case ID: ohio-st_31/html/0419-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the Court.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John F. Miller v. Martha Patterson.
    Error to the District Court of Logan county.
    
      Bernan $• Kerman,'for plaintiff in error,
    cited 2 Hilliard on Torts, 312, 313; 2 Ohio, 90; Swan’s Treatise, 287; 7 Allen, 26; 34 Yt. 387.
    
      William Lawrence and Joseph H. Lawrence, for the defendant in error,
    cited act of May 1, 1854 (52 Ohio Laws, 153); 2 S. & C. Stat. 1432, sec. 8; Stevens v. The State, 14 Ohio, 386: Boyd v. Watt, 27 Ohio St. 259; Bilis v. Bitzer, 2 Ohio, 89; 2 Hilliard on Torts, ch. 23, pp. 292, 293; 
      Brooks v. Athburn, 9 Ga. 297; Sutton v. Clark, 6 Taunt. 29; Brown v. Wheeler, 18 Conn. 199.
   By the Court.

Separate actions were brought against different defendants, under the act of 1870 (67 Ohio L. 108), for alleged injuries to a wife’s means of support from the intoxication of her husband. The petitions- in form were identical. Held, the fact that the plaintiff in one case received a sum of money in satisfaction and discharge of her cause of action, was no defense in the other case, if in fact the intoxications were separate and distinct.

Judgment affirmed.