Bryant v. Rich's Grill
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort against a corporation, engaged in the restaurant business and maintaining a bar where intoxicating liquors were sold, to recover a penalty under R. L. c. 212, § 89, for discriminating unlawfully against the plaintiff on account of his color.
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Tort against a corporation, engaged in the restaurant business and maintaining a bar where intoxicating liquors were sold, to recover a penalty under R. L. c. 212, § 89, for discriminating unlawfully against the plaintiff on account of his color. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, dated January 6, 1912. On appeal to the Superior Court the case was tried before Bell, J. It appeared that the defendant was a Massachusetts corporation maintaining a barroom as alleged, and that on October 25, 1911, one Hoffman, employed by the defendant as a barkeeper, refused to serve the…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
This action is brought to recover the forfeiture given by the R. L. c. 212, § 89, for the unlawful discrimination from his fellowmen of the plaintiff by reason of his race and color in a public place kept for gain by the defendant.
It is important in the construction of the statute, which is a composite, to inquire as to its origin and gradual development. The St. of 1865, c. 277, enacted more than three years before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, declared that “no distinction, discrimination or restriction on account of color or race shall…
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