Van Buren v. Ford

The defendant, Consuelo W. Ford, and her husband own and occupy a farm residence in a secluded section of Columbia County. In July of 1946 they had in their employ two colored maids. The colored maids occupied a wing of this farmhouse. On the evening of July 6, 1946, sometime between ten and eleven o’clock of that night, while the maids were undressing and preparing for bed, they were frightened by a noise or a voice from outside of the house, and someone on the outside of the house in some particular words or substance stated that he would knock the door down. The maids came into the living…