70 Iowa 285 | Iowa | 1886
Defendant’s act of selling the revolver to plaintiff’s minor son was a misdemeanor, which, by the provisions of chapter 78 of the Acts of the Twentieth General Assembly, is punishable by fine or imprisonment. One who has been injured by the unlawful or criminal act of another may maintain an action for the recovery of the damages sustained by him in consequence of the injury. Messenger v. Pate, 42 Iowa, 443. In such cases the wrong doer is held liable, not only for such injuries as are the immediate and natural consequences of his misconduct, but for all such consequential injuries as might reasonably have been anticipated as the probable result of the wrongful act. 1 Suth. Dam., 23; McDonald v. Smiling, 14 Allen, 290 (296).
We think the demurrer to the petition was properly sustained.
AFFIRMED.