Coe v. Ricker

This is an action to recover the value of certain jewelry which had been placed by the plaintiff in the custody of the defendant, and had been lost, as she alleged, by the negligence of the defendant.

At the trial it appeared that the defendant was the proprietor of a summer boarding house called the “Silver Beach Hotel,” situated at North Falmouth in this State, and that, in accordance with a contract made several days before, the plaintiff, on August 1, 1910, went with her two children to the house to board for the whole month at the rate of $34 per week.

The evidence as to the deposit of…