150.08. Dram Shop Act-Injury to Person or Property-Only Owner Lessor etc. Sued-Statutory Provisions

150.08 Dram Shop Act--Injury to Person or Property--Only Owner, Lessor, etc. Sued--Statutory Provisions There was in force in the State of Illinois at the time of this occurrence a statute called the Dram Shop Act providing that any person owning, renting, leasing or permitting the occupation of any building or premises and having knowledge that alcoholic liquors were to be sold therein, or who having leased the same for other purposes, shall knowingly permit the sale therein of alcoholic liquors, and if the sale or gift of alcoholic liquors in those premises has caused the intoxication of any person, then every person injured in person or property by the intoxicated person shall have a right of action [in [his] [her] own name] against the person owning, renting, leasing or permitting the premises to be so used for the sale or gift of alcoholic liquors.