The facts are not in dispute. Mrs. Moritz and Miss Ellison were paying guests at defendants' hotel in Sullivan County. After attending a lecture on the use of fabrics the two ladies were seated on a settee in the upper lobby of the hotel when a hotel porter, William Brown, dropped a heavy commercial vacuum cleaner on the knee of Miss Ellison. When the ladies complained, he verbally abused them and struck Mrs. Moritz forcibly in the face with his fist, knocking her over the...
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