Lazare Kaplan & Sons, Inc. v. Pensacola Hotel Company, S. Lesse & Sons, Inc. v. Pensacola Hotel Company

These two appeals consolidated for submission here are from orders granting defendant’s motions to dismiss the action in each case because, under the Florida Statutes governing the liability of innkeepers, F.S.A. § 509.111, the complaint failed to state a claim against it.

Each suit was brought against defendant to recover the value of jewels and other property which each plaintiff claimed he had lost while a paying guest in the hotel.

The district judge, in a decision and opinion, 1 carefully summing up the case as made on the pleadings, setting out and discussing the applicable Florida…