Dallas Hotel Co. v. Blanchette

This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment for damages alleged to have been occasioned by the loss of wearing apparel checked and left with appellant’s employs at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas. Appellees, in company with others, attended a ball on the night of December 24, 1920, in the junior ballroom of the hotel. This room is on the second floor of the hotel; it occupies an area between the south front of the hotel and a lobby or entrance hall on its north side, which separates it from the elevator serving the various floors of the building. A checkroom or reserved space in which were…