Giles v. Fauntleroy
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. This was an action on the case, brought on the 12th of June 1855, by the appellee against the appellant, as an innkeeper, to recover the value of a trunk and its contents, alleged to have been lost whilst the plaintiff was a guest at the defendant’s inn. Plea, non cul.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. This was an action on the case, brought on the 12th of June 1855, by the appellee against the appellant, as an innkeeper, to recover the value of a trunk and its contents, alleged to have been lost whilst the plaintiff was a guest at the defendant’s inn. Plea, non cul. In the course of the trial, two exceptions were taken by the defendant to the rulings of the court below, (Marshall, J.,) which, with all the facts of the case, are fully stated in the opinion of this court. The verdict and j'udgment were in favor of the plaintiff, and the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtEccleston, J.
This is an action on the case, instituted in the Court of Common Pleas for Baltimore city, by the appellee against the appellant, to recover the value of a trunk and its contents, ah leged to have been lost whilst the plaintiff was a guest at the defendant’s inn.
The declaration contains two counts, each charging the defendant as an inn-keeper.
The plea is not guilty.
At the trial it was admitted that the plaintiff lodged, as a guest, at the hotel of the defendant^ that the articles enumerated in the list annexed to the agreement were in the plaintiff’s trunk at the time the same was alleged to…
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