Jones v. Broadway Roller Rink Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe superior court of Douglas county: Challes Smith, Judge. Action for damages, alleging tbat tbe defendant, a corporation, was conducting a place of public accommodation and amusement, to wit, a roller skating rink, in tbe city of Superior; tbat plaintiff paid tbe price of admission and for skating and entered said rink, but was prohibited by tbe defendant from skating for tbe reason tbat tbe plaintiff was a colored man; tbat be was thus unjustly…
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe superior court of Douglas county: Challes Smith, Judge. Action for damages, alleging tbat tbe defendant, a corporation, was conducting a place of public accommodation and amusement, to wit, a roller skating rink, in tbe city of Superior; tbat plaintiff paid tbe price of admission and for skating and entered said rink, but was prohibited by tbe defendant from skating for tbe reason tbat tbe plaintiff was a colored man; tbat be was thus unjustly denied equal enjoyment and privilege by illegal discrimination based wholly upon color, to bis damage. Tbe answer admits…
1Opinion of the Court
Dodoe", J.
We cannot doubt tbat the action attempted to 'be stated in tbe complaint and met by tbe answer was tbe action expressly authorized by sec. 4398c, Stats. (1898) :
*597“Any person wbto shall deny to any other person, in whole or in part, the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of inns, restaurants, saloons, barber shops, eating houses, public conveyances on land or water, or any other place of public accommodation or amusement, except for reasons applicable alike to all persons of every race or color, or who shall aid or incite such denial,…
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