Opinion ID: 2143299
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Heading: In the State Farm Mutual Case)

Text: The statute provides that `every husband, wife, child, parent, guardian, employer or other person who is injured in person or property, or means of support, by any intoxicated person, or by the intoxication of any person, has a right of action, in his own name, against any person who by illegally selling, bartering or giving intoxicating liquors, caused the intoxication of such person, for all damages sustained.' The language used by the Legislature is clear and unambiguous and is clearly intended    to include the plaintiff.    If the Legislature had not wanted other persons included    it would not have added `other persons.' The plaintiff is clearly a person according to the legislative intent. It is an artificial person, the same as an employer could be an artificial person. When it paid out money on its liability policy, it was damaged under any common sense interpretation of the word damaged.