Campbell v. Portsmouth Hotel Co.

While in express terms only the stolen car was left in the defendant’s charge, the circumstances were such that it could fairly be found that the defendant assumed to take in charge the contents of the car appropriate for the traveling purposes of the plaintiffs as well as the car itself. They were travelers, and stopping over night at the defendant’s hotel as they did, they might reasonably be expected to leave in the car such accessories, equipment and baggage as they had no occasion to use while at the hotel. It might therefore be found that the contract of bailment included both the car…