YOUNG v. ALBERT PICK HOTELS

No. 17250.

320 F.2d 719 (1963)

M. Wharton YOUNG, Appellant, v. ALBERT PICK HOTELS, a corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 29, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James J. Laughlin, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. Peter R. Cella, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Richard W. Galiher and William E. Stewart, Jr., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, MAGRUDER, Senior Circuit Judge for the First Circuit, and FAHY, Circuit Judge.


MAGRUDER, Senior Circuit Judge.

The complaint charges that the plaintiff, a citizen of the District of Columbia but temporarily resident in India, was invited to give a lecture before a scientific convention at the Pick-Congress Hotel in Chicago, Illinois; that he had duly reserved a room accommodation at the said hotel but that when he arrived there he was denied such accommodation because of his color. It was alleged that...

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