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Children Win Verdict In Suit on Dram ShopED WARDS VIDLE, IUM Nov. 17 —(AP)—Three Missouri children were awarded $500 apiece yesterday in settlement of a damage suit under the Illinois dram shop law. Their father, John Eldon Wells of Kennett, Mo., is serving a life sentence for a slaying in a tavern 'brawl in August, 1944. Their mother already had settled her own suit for $1,000.Defendants were Mrs. David M. Stiff, operator of a tavern In j which Wells was drinking^ dnd Thomas J. Fleming and Anna Fleming, owners of the building.wells was convicted of killing Orville Huson, a carnival man,m an argument over a dice game.
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Daily Capital News
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Thu, Nov 18, 1948
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