Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-01-05 | Page 1 | Speakeasies Possess Same Legal Status as Clubs for Rich Man, Judge Declares

V Speakeasies Possess Same Legal Lega Status as Cubs Clubs fori for Rich i u Man an Judge I IIi Ii Rules in Favor of Wid Widow w of Man Killed by Liquor Bandit Law Not Prohibition in Fact He States DETROIT Jan 4 United Press Blind pigs and speakeasies th tha tb saloons of prohibition days have the same legal status as rich men mena clubs or churches and arc entitled to equal civil rights ac according according according ac- ac cording to an opinion handed down by Judge Vincent M. M Brennan in circuit court hero here today Judge Brennan held that a a. man who enters a 3 blind pig piS is not exposing himself to lo unnecessary danger and that the widow of oC a aman aman aman man killed b by 3 a bandit in a speakeasy speakeasy speakeasy speak speak- easy raid is entitled to tho the 1000 life lIfo insurance policy her husband carried I The opinion ended the suit of 01 Anders against the Ule Title Titia Guarantee and Casualty Company of or America Tho insurance compan company com corn pan pany claimed that since Bert H. H Anders was shot to death in a a. blind pig piS ho lie was opposing himsel himself him bin self sel to unnecessary danger and Lulu Anders Ander his lila widow was not to tho mone money N NOT T PROHIBITION After Aler mOle more than ten years' years trial trill of the tho prohibition law law in iii this state Judge e Brennan's Drennan opinion sal said the court must take judicial notice that pr pr in law is not prohibition lohl in iii fact act Tho The opinion continued It Jt cannot cannot cannot can can- not be sal said as a matter of or law w that presence I in tho the pig pis was a avol vol voluntary e exposure 1 to 0 un 1 unnecessary cessar danger It Is true truo that blind pig piS' patrons occasionally are aro d disturbed by gunmen gunmen gun un me men but so aro clergymen policemen policemen police pollee- men and ju judges Tho The accepted c census o of blind pigs s In Detroit is Would the tho multiplied thousands of ot their customers customers cus cus- not ho bo surprised to tu learn that as an they y sip their highballs and discussed the tho evils C of oC prohibition thick their insurance policies lap lapso o May a It Jt not be assumed from the thc popularity of or thc these o emporiums that their patrons pati-ons enter them not in the thc belief that list they aro re places of ot hazard haz haz- ard arll but in iii quest oC of relaxation refreshment re rc- rc- rc freshment and rc rest t If lt wo we were to accept the tho defendants defendants' defendants defendants' de de- dc- dc argument baj based ed on the illegality 4 of ot tho the blind pigs s as sound whore would it lead us us' us Would It not follow that when a u. aman aman man enters enter a n. place where intoxicants intoxicants intoxicants cants arc are consumed whether it bo ho bohl o hl hll l pigs pIg's drawing room or 01 private club he ho is exposing himself himsel to unnecessary unnecessary un un- un- un necessary danger