99 Mich. 439 | Mich. | 1894
This is an action under the statute,. against a saloon keeper, by the daughter of one who met. with an accident while intoxicated.
Error is assigned to the court’s instruction that plaintiff was entitled to recover for injury to her feelings, as Well as for the deprivation of her means of support. The;
The court further instructed the jury that they had a right to take into account the injury which plaintiff may have sustained in her feelings on account of this injury to her father. This was error, JLe injury to the feelings, contemplated by the statute, is the shame, mortification, or disgrace arising from the fact of intoxication; and it does not include, as an element of actual damages, the mental anguish because of the injury received by the person so intoxicated.
The judgment will be reversed, and a new trial ordered.