HORNICK v. NOYES

Nos. 81-1511, 81-2891.

708 F.2d 321 (1983)

Ella HORNICK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ruth NOYES, et al., Defendants-Appellees. and Ella HORNICK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MADISON, WISCONSIN, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

June 3, 1983.

As Amended June 7, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ella Hornick, Madison, Wis., for plaintiff-appellant.

Roy L. Prange, Jr., Ross & Stevens, S.C., Madison, Wis., for defendants-appellees.

Before BAUER, ESCHBACH and COFFEY, Circuit Judges.


COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

The tangled history of this case begins in March of 1972 when the pro se appellant Ella Hornick (now approximately seventy-five years of age) became a permanent resident of the Madison, Wisconsin YWCA and was assigned to a room on the fifth floor, one of the floors designated for elderly women. (The previous twenty years Mrs. Hornick spent as a resident of a state mental institution in Pennsylvania.) The record indicates that there was considerable...

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