Wife Of Manhattan Man Found Frozen To Death in Cornfield Last Winter Suing Bar Where He Got Drunk

The wife of a Manhattan man found frozen to death in a cornfield last winter sued the Symerton bar where he had gotten drunk.

Daryl Mulcahy, the wife of 55-year-old Terence Mulcahy, filed her lawsuit against Anson’s Pub in Will County court.

Terence Mulcahy had been drinking at Anson’s in January and “became visibly intoxicated,” the lawsuit said.

Anson’s Pub “took possession or control of (Terence Mulcahy’s) car keys during the course of him becoming intoxicated,” the suit said, but once he “became visibly intoxicated, Anson’s Pub returned the car keys” to him.

Terence Mulcahy’s body was later found in a field near the intersection of Arsenal and Martin Long roads. He apparently ran his pickup truck into a ditch about a quarter mile from where he died. An autopsy revealed he had suffered from cold exposure and a head injury.

One of Terence Mulcahy’s three daughters last spoke with him on the telephone two nights before he was found dead, according to the Will County Sheriff’s Department, and he told her daughter he was heading over to Anson’s Pub.

The next day, when Terence Mulcahy had still not returned home and his Ford pickup was missing, the daughter repeatedly attempted to contact him but her calls went straight to his voicemail, police said.

The daughter also called Anson’s Pub and was told that Mulcahy did stop in the night before but had not been seen since.

Anson’s Pub was responsible for Terence Mulcahy’s death because someone gave him back his car keys and he was allowed to drive while intoxicated, the lawsuit said. The bar also should have provided Terence Mulcahy with transportation, according to the suit.