Minor v. Staples
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report from superior court, Cumberland county. An action to recover of the defendant, the proprietor of the Old Orchard House, at Old Orchard beach, as inn keeper, for money, watch, chain and ring of the plaintiff, of the agreed value of two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents, stolen August 20, 1877, from a bath house, kept by the defendant on the sea shore, where persons, bathing in the sea, change their garments and leave their clothes, and where…
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On report from superior court, Cumberland county. An action to recover of the defendant, the proprietor of the Old Orchard House, at Old Orchard beach, as inn keeper, for money, watch, chain and ring of the plaintiff, of the agreed value of two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents, stolen August 20, 1877, from a bath house, kept by the defendant on the sea shore, where persons, bathing in the sea, change their garments and leave their clothes, and where the plaintiff left his clothes, and the money and jewelry which were stolen while he was absent bathing. The plaintiff was…
1Opinion of the CourtWalton, J.
The question is whether one who keeps an inn, and also keeps a bath house separate from his inn, is chargable, as innkeeper, for property stolen from the bath house. We think he is not. It seems to us that the keeping of the inn and the .keeping of the bath house are separate and distinct employments, and involve separate and distinct duties and liabilities. One may be an innkeeper without being a bath house keeper, or he may be a bath house keeper without being an innkeeper; or the same person may engage in both employments; just as a livery stable keeper may also be a common carrier of…
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