Berkshire Woollen Co. v. Proctor
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
In this case, which was argued by E. Merwin, for the defendants, and by I Sumner, for the plaintiffs, on exceptions taken by the former to the rulings and instructions of Byington, J., at the trial in the court of common pleas, the facts suffi-5 ciently appear in the opinion of the court, which was read at the September term, 1852, as drawn up by
1Opinion of the CourtFletcher, J.
This is an action on the case against the defendants, as innkeepers, for the alleged loss of five hundred dollars of the plaintiffs’ money in the inn of the defendants, known as the Marlboro’ Hotel, in the city of Boston. It was admitted that the defendants were innkeepers, and proprietors of said Marlboro’ Hotel.
It appears from the testimony, that about the 15th of October, 1849, Asa C. Russell, an agent and servant of the plaintiffs, went to Boston with some twenty five witnesses, to take charge of a lawsuit to which the plaintiffs were a party; that he took with him one thousand dollars of…
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