Denny v. Dorr

Mr. Presiding Justice Wolfe

delivered the opinion of the court.

Julius Denny, the plaintiff, a negro, secured a verdict and judgment .against the defendants, Dorr and Gernis, for $300 under the Civil Rights Act, on his complaint and testimony that the defendants on December 7 and 9,1946, and on January 24, 1947, refused on account of his race and color, to sell to him beer, by the glass, as a customer of the defendants’ tavern near Rockford. The defendants prosecute this appeal.

Section one of the Civil Rights Act provides, that all persons within the jurisdiction of the State of Illinois, shall…