Jones v. Shannon
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Valley County; Frank N. Utter, Judge. Action by Ruth Jones against "W. F. Shannon and wife. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendants appeal from an order denying them a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Brantly
The defendants, W. F. and Lila Shannon, are husband and wife. The husband owns and conducts a public inn or hotel at Glasgow, in Valley county, known as the Shannon Hotel, the wife giving her assistance by acting as housekeeper and exercising a general supervision over the guests and their entertainment, her husband giving her authority to do so. On the evening of November 10, 1913, the plaintiff was a guest of the hotel, intending to spend the night there. She and her husband, Roy Jones, were assigned to a room and were occupying and using it. After narrating the foregoing facts, the…
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