Court Opinion

ID: 9716533
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 06:43:00.022956+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:00:06.895096
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE SIMON, specially concurring: I continue to believe that the decision in Hopkins v. Powers (1986), 113 Ill. 2d 206, that dramshops are not “liable in tort” under the Contribution Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 70, par. 302(a)), and therefore not subject to an action for contribution is incorrect. (See Hopkins, 113 Ill. 2d at 212-19 (Goldenhersh and Simon, JJ., dissenting).) The result of the application of such a decision is even more egregious here than it was in Hopkins because in this case it is not the intoxicated person who is attempting to get contribution from the dramshop, but rather, the person seeking contribution is one who has been sued by the intoxicated person. Unfortunately, the holding in Hopkins controls the outcome in this case, and I reluctantly concur in the decision of the court.