Atwater v. Sawyer
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Appeals from the decision of a magistrate. Each case is .to recover damages from the defendant, an unlicensed inn-keeper at Newport, for refusing the plaintiff entertainment at his house August 27, 1883. The verdict in each case was for eight dollars.
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On exceptions. Appeals from the decision of a magistrate. Each case is .to recover damages from the defendant, an unlicensed inn-keeper at Newport, for refusing the plaintiff entertainment at his house August 27, 1883. The verdict in each case was for eight dollars. In justification for his refusal the defendant offered to prove "that eighty or a hundred men dressed in a certain uniform arrived in Newport, and that more or less of those men proceeded to Mr. Sawyer’s house, intoxicated and behaved in a disorderly manner, threatening to turn him and his house into the street; and after that…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, J.
I. Was the offered'testimony as to the conduct of third parties in the defendant’s inn, just before the entry of the plaintiffs, and as to the effect of such conduct on the defendant’s mind, admissible? An inn-lceeper’s right to exclude from his inn all disorderly persons ; all persons who come with an intent to make an assault, or to insult him or his customers, and the right to exclude such without waiting until the assault was made, or the affray begun, or the insult perpetrated, may be admitted. Markham v. Brown, 8 N. H. 523. The defendant further claims, however, that when he has…
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