Baylies v. Curry
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. A. N. Waterman, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. A. N. Waterman, Judge, presiding. This was an action brought in the circuit court of Cook county, by Josephine M. Curry, a woman of color, against Joseph Baylies, proprietor of the People’s Theater of Chicago, for denying her the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of the theater whereof he was proprietor, under the act entitled “An act to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights, and fixing a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
The case made by appellee’s evidence, as stated in the printed argument presented to us by appellant’s counsel, is : “On Sunday evening, June 6, 1886, appellee (who is a colored woman) applied to the box-office of appellant’s theater for tickets, and was refused them; that she then procured a white customer of her husband to get tickets for her; that with these-tickets she and her husband entered the theater and ascended to the balcony, where they were refused seats by the usher because the seat coupons had been torn from their tickets, which was done by the door-keeper; that the usher…
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