Miller v. Strahl
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEBRASKA. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the Fourteenth Amendment of a statute of Nebraska relative to duties and liabilities of hotel keepers in case of fire, are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEBRASKA. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the Fourteenth Amendment of a statute of Nebraska relative to duties and liabilities of hotel keepers in case of fire, are stated in the opinion. The trial court placed upon the statute an interpretation which permitted the jury to hold plaintiff in error liable if they should find from the evidence that either he, as proprietor of the hotel, or any of his employés, had failed to do all in their power to save defendant in error unharmed from the fire. The statute, or this interpretation…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
Action for the recovery of $15,000 on account of injuries sustained by defendant in error while a guest at the hotel of plaintiff in error, caused by the negligence of the latter and in violation of a law of the State of Nebraska.
Plaintiff in the case, defendant in error here, alleges that the plaintiff in error was the proprietor and operator of what is known as the Millard Hotel, located in Omaha, Nebraska, and that, as such, he received and entertained defendant in error as a guest for hire; that on the night of January 22, 1911, and during the morning of January 23, defendant in error…
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