Harvey, Inc. v. Sissle

OPINION

By LIEGHLEY, PJ.

The plaintiff Ellen Sissle recovered a judgment against the defendant, Harvey, Inc., for the sum of One Hundred Dollars based upon a claim that she was refused service in a store of the defendant in violation of §12940 GC. This section, so far as pertinent, reads as follows:

“DENIAL OF PRIVILEGES AT INNS AND OTHER PLACES BY REASON OF COLOR. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barber-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theatre or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen,…