Miller v. Patterson (31 Ohio St. 419, 1877)

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.