New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-25
LIFE IN A BOARDING HOUSE.
APPARENTLY TIE FOOD DID NOT SUIT.

nry~r~rxr VERSIONS REGARDING IT. BUT THE
Jy-ry CAVE , VERDICT roe TIE PLAINTIFF
4 siery of Efe ~ a New York boarding house was
laid before Judge rgshke and a patient Jury IN the
CITY Court yesterday IN suit arising on an alleged
breach ~ contract TIE complaint OF Elizabeth Norris
as assignee Of the claim of Dr.. D. Emory Holman, set
forth that on November II, 1895, Frank ID. Rogers,
copp,iss on ncrcha IT. Who hives at present al No &C
Prospeei Pace Brooklyn. entered into agreement
with d.. Holman by which, in consideration of S1o0
month be paid by Rogers the doctor was to permit
hin and his family 10 occupy the front middle and
rooms on the second Door of No. $50 West Fifty
sovcnths;, where the doctor kept fashionable board
ing house Board TO be furnished for Rogers, his
wife, mother and ma a, and the agreement was for
a yoar and 10 be continued longer mutually agree
able
on July L, 1856. the Rogers family moved away
leaving balance of $500 claimed to be due for the re-
nalnder of the year unpaid. and this he auo INT
sued fox. The agreement proven and the deiend-
took lac stand. He said that he had moved away
because the food poor, insufficient, impure ana
entirely unfit and the agreement called for GOOD
food and pleoty of it. lie had uf rmed the doctor.
and had thereu pon moved away Mr.. Rogers testl-
fed that the meat was not ~ to ear ana ma hosr and
the meat put IN to boil The coffee was so bad that
he ouiy able drink it five times while nc "ss
ON tho other hand Holman says that the food was
As n medical man would you have furnished as
much food II the family been under your charge
a. patients ?" he was asked.
mo" he answered g would have given much less"
The witness stated that the caterer Michael Dillon
cooked for him and the Rogers family the same
kind of food that he gave MIN. The witness paid
Dillon $40 month for he food for the Rogers family
Mrs Chorlo;te T. Holman co roboracd her husbands
testimony. She said the Rogers family pcked the
food M he'd thca all 10 pieces and sent 1t back IN
such condition thai none OF II could be used
Michael Dill IN. caterer, related that one day be
served mn white bait fOf lunch and Mrs Rogers said
that ,oked like the entrails of herring asked what
the brown bread sent with II was and said that al
together she had ANYTHING like H. She was
always finding fault. His wife. Mrs Louisa Dillon
said that tho Rogers family never satisfied. and
Mrs Rogers had said that the white bait had looked
like snails
Elizabeth Morris. the plaintiff, swore that Rogers
called upon her and said thai he would give ANYBODY
500 to 90 AGAINST the case. She did hOnsewOrk for
r Holman collected his bills and he asst ned her
this claim. A Mrs EVELYN. who had boarded al the
house declared that the board was excellent. Rogers
recalled strcrnouSly denied the story about the $500
and said that when lar had spoken to Dillon about the
food the latter had said that not m TO set before
a lahoilug man and that Or. Holman did not give him
enough buy food with.
The Jury after brief elaboration gave VerlucU
for Dlaintif for 1898.