Grugan v. Shore Hotels Finance & Exchange Corp.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wells, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of nonsuit entered in the New Jersey Supreme Court, Atlantic County, in favor of the defendant, Shore Hotels Finance Exchange Corporation, and against the plaintiff, Alice Grugan.

From the allegations of the complaint, as amended in the course of the trial, and from the proofs, it appears that during the summer of 1937 plaintiff rented an apartment in the New Davenport Hotel, which was operated by the defendant. At the time of the renting there was a bulge in the ceiling of the bedroom to be occupied by the…