Widen v. Warren Hotel Co.

This is an' action for loss of the plaintiff’s baggage while he was a guest at the hotel of the defendant, a corporation duly licensed as an innholder. The action was brought in the District Court. The judge found for the defendant, and filed a “memorandum” containing “all the evidence material to the questions reported.”

The plaintiff had been a guest of the hotel for more than two hundred times, and “at least fifty times a year.” He generally occupied the same room. On the morning of January 19, 1925, he registered at the defendant’s hotel and was told by the room clerk that his regular room…