HOBSON v. YORK STUDIOS


208 Misc. 888 (1955)

Rose Hobson et al., Plaintiffs, v. York Studios, Inc., Defendant.

Municipal Court of the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan.

October 18, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce McM. Wright and Marion O. Jones for plaintiffs.

Isaac Knox for defendant.


WAHL, J.

The plaintiffs, Raymond S. Hobson, a Negro, and his wife, a white woman, sue for statutory redress under section 41 of the Civil Rights Law. They allege that when they applied for a room at the defendant's hotel, they were rejected by reason of their race and the sought public accommodations refused to them on that ground alone.

Section 40 of the Civil Rights Law, speaking of "public accommodations...

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