Outlook Hotel Co. v. St. John

BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.

Alice St. John, a citizen of New York, was a guest of the Monomonock Inn, a summer hotel at Caldwell, N. J., owned by the Outlook Hotel Company, a corporation of New Jersey. Going to the station one rainy morning, the hotel automobile bus skidded, throwing Mrs. St. John to the street and causing her injuries. -She and her husband brought this’suit to recover damages from the hotel company, on .the theory that it operated the hotel, and accordingly was liable for the negligence of the automobile driver, its servant. After verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs, the…