The Lancaster Gazette

The License Law in Wisconsin.—The following is a more particular account of the decision in a liquor case in Wisconsin, which we have already noticed.

Among other provisions of the license law of Wisconsin, is one which requires the venders of spirituous liquors to give bonds, with sureties, to respond in damages to third persons sustaining damages that can be traced to the sale of liquor by them. Under this law a suit was instituted by one Lovicy Keyser against Joseph Heath and his sureties, and on the part of the plaintiff it was proved that the principal, Heath, sold sometime in the month of October last, liquors at different times to Jacob Keyser, the husband of the plaintiff, that the said husband was attacked with the delirium tremens in the month of November, and was the object of great care and attention on the part of his wife, from which care and fatigue she became sick, &c. The defence relied upon various points, among which was the few number of times that Keyser had obtained liquors of Heath, which would render it impossible for the effects to have resulted from his vending solely, and that Heath and his sureties, were only answerable for those effects which could be directly traced to the sales made by Heath, which did not exceed ten or twelve times, we believe. The verdict of the jury was for the plaintiff $100, the extent of the jurisdiction.