Kaplan v. Titus
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Edward H. Titus, from an order of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 24th day of February, 1910, affirming a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in favor of the plaintiff, rendered on the 14th day of May, 1909.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
The defendant is the proprietor of the Hotel Woodward in the city of Hew York, and this action is brought to recover damages for the loss of a dress suit case and its contents. It appears that the plaintiff and his family became guests at the hotel in January, 1909, and remained there until the twenty-seventh of February following. On that day he paid his bill and left the hotel about four o’clock in the afternoon. He left at the hotel some nineteen pieces of baggage, one of which was the suit case in question, to be called for by an expressman whom he had engaged. The…
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