# Connolly v. Nicollet Hotel

> Supreme Court of Minnesota · February 27, 1959 · 254 Minn. 373

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9578127

## Case

- **Full name:** Marcella A. Connolly v. the Nicollet Hotel and Others
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Minnesota
- **Decided:** February 27, 1959
- **Citations:** 254 Minn. 373; 95 N.W.2d 657; 74 A.L.R. 2d 1227; 1959 Minn. LEXIS 560
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Knutson
- **Judges:** Murphy, Gallagher, Matson, Knutson
- **Cited by:** 50 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- concluding that a hotel serving intoxicating beverages owed a duty to protect a person walking on a public sidewalk adjacent to the hotel from the consequences of dangerous conduct by the hotel’s guests, who released objects from hotel windows
- stating that an “innkeeper owes a duty to the public to protect it against foreseeable risk of danger attendant upon the maintenance and operation of his property”
- concluding that an innkeeper owes a duty to protect persons against foreseeable risk of danger attendant upon the maintenance and operation of its property
- stating that the “common-law test of duty is the . . . 20 foreseeability of injury to the plaintiff”

## Opinion text

Knutson, Justice
(dissenting).
I concur in the dissent of Mr. Justice Thomas Gallagher.

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