Faulkner v. Solazzi
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action against the proprietor of a barber-shop to recover double damages, under chapter 111 of the Public Acts of 1905, for depriving the plaintiff, a colored man, of the customary accommodations of the shop, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County where a demurrer to the complaint was sustained (Curtis, J.) and judgment rendered for the defendant, from which the plaintiff appealed.
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Action against the proprietor of a barber-shop to recover double damages, under chapter 111 of the Public Acts of 1905, for depriving the plaintiff, a colored man, of the customary accommodations of the shop, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County where a demurrer to the complaint was sustained (Curtis, J.) and judgment rendered for the defendant, from which the plaintiff appealed. The complaint alleged, in substance, that the plaintiff was a colored man, that the defendant was the proprietor of a barber-shop, and that the latter, contrary to the provisions of chapter 111 of…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
The demurrer sustained was inartificially drawn, but the defendant intended by it to put in issue the fundamental question of the case, and it was accepted by both the plaintiff and the court as accomplishing that result. We may well follow, therefore, the example thus concurred in, and pass to a consideration of the vital issue thus determined. That issue is as to whether or not a barber-shop is a “ place of public accommodation,” within the meaning of the statute under which the action is brought.
The common law has long been familiar with forms of business regarded as, to use Lord Hale’s…
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