Kentucky Hotel, Inc. v. Cinotti

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

The appeal is from a judgment for $909.30 for loss of baggage of a hotel guest.

The appellee, E. J. T. Cinotti, had been substantially a permanent resident in the Kentucky Hotel in Louisville, for about a year, occupying a large and spacious room. He left on November 8, 1942. When he returned on December 6th, he asked for his old room but it was not available. The best the Hotel could do for him was to offer a small, room in which there was no closet. Cinotti was told by a clerk on duty at the desk that if he would take the room his baggage…