Morse v. Piedmont Hotel Co.

Haul, Judge.

This petition alleged in essence that the plaintiff, a jewelry salesman, was a guest of the defendant Hotel and entrusted to the Hotel’s bell boy a sample case containing valuable jewelry to take and place on a bus of the defendant Cab Company for transportation from the Hotel to the Atlanta airport. The bell boy placed the jewelry case in the baggage compartment of the airport bus and the plaintiff boarded the bus. When the bus reached the airport the sample case had been stolen as a result of alleged negligent acts and omissions of the defendants' agents in failing to protect…