Boyce v. Greeley Square Hotel Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Greeley Square Hotel Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 28th day of June, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury for $8,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 22d day of June, 1917, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Rich, J.:
The circumstances upon which the plaintiff bases her right to recover took place at the Hotel McAlpin, operated by the defendant, in the city of New York, on September 22, 1915. It appears that the plaintiff, accompanied by her husband and daughter, went to the Hotel McAlpin on September 21, 1915, at about seven o’clock in the afternoon. Plaintiff’s husband informed defendant’s room clerk that he wanted a room for his wife and daughter, whom he registered as “ Mrs. Alexander R. Boyce and Miss Florence Boyce.” The clerk replied that he would give them a room on the sixth floor, but on…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- De Wolf v. . FordNew York Court of Appeals · 1908
- Gillespie v. . Brooklyn Heights R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1904
- Stecher Lithographic Co. v. . InmanNew York Court of Appeals · 1903
- de Wolf v. FordAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
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- Kellogg v. Commodore Hotel, Inc.New York Supreme Court · 1946
- Hurd v. Hotel Astor Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1918
- Kirstein v. Hotel Taft Corp.New York Supreme Court · 1944