Elliott v. Congress Hotel, Inc.

This is an action at law in tort instituted by Mabel Elliott against Congress Hotel, Inc., to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by her while a guest in a hotel conducted by the defendant in the city of Chicago at about 2:30 p.m. on the 30th day of December, 1936. The case was tried before a court and jury resulting in a verdict of not guilty in favor of defendant. The' court overruled the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial and entered judgment on the verdict, from which judgment this appeal is taken.

The plaintiff at the time of the accident was a visiting professor of sociology…