Shultz v. Wall
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY DEPENDANT EROM THE COURT OE. COMMON PLEAS OE CHESTER COUNTY. No. 175 July Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 112 August Term 1888, C. P. On August 8, 1888, Edwin Shultz brought trespass against Frederick Wall, to recover a sum of money alleged to have been stolen from the plaintiff, while a guest in the hotel of the defendant. The defendant’s plea was not guilty.
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APPEAL BY DEPENDANT EROM THE COURT OE. COMMON PLEAS OE CHESTER COUNTY. No. 175 July Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 112 August Term 1888, C. P. On August 8, 1888, Edwin Shultz brought trespass against Frederick Wall, to recover a sum of money alleged to have been stolen from the plaintiff, while a guest in the hotel of the defendant. The defendant’s plea was not guilty. At the trial on February 20, 1889, the following facts were shown: The defendant was the regularly licensed keeper of a hotel at Phcenixville. The plaintiff, who was the driver of a beer wagon, in the habit of coming to…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Just toe Mitchell:
As long ago as Chancellor Kent’s day, it was said: “ The responsibility of an innkeeper for the horse or goods of his guest .... has been a point of much discussion in the books: ” 2 Kent Com., 592. The common-law rule, as established in Calye’s Case, 8 Rep. 63, was that the innkeeper was bound absolutely to keep safe the goods of his guest deposited within the inn; and Kent, after considering the cases, lays it down that “an innkeeper, like a common carrier, is an insurer of the goods of his guest: ” 2 Kent Com., 594. The subject is also learnedly discussed in…
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