Needles v. Howard
New York Court of Common Pleas
This action was to recover the value of lace goods, purchased hy the plaintiffs of J. R. Jaffray & Sons, and sent to E. M. Needles, one of the plaintiffs, at the Irving Hotel, where he was staying, and of which the defendant was the proprietor. The plaintiff, J. Needles, was not a guest at that house.
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This action was to recover the value of lace goods, purchased hy the plaintiffs of J. R. Jaffray & Sons, and sent to E. M. Needles, one of the plaintiffs, at the Irving Hotel, where he was staying, and of which the defendant was the proprietor. The plaintiff, J. Needles, was not a guest at that house. The defendant was in the habit of receiving packages left from time to time for his guests, and kept a register in which a memorandum of them receipt was entered, and on the day in question, thirty six packages were so left. The goods in question were delivered by a porter at the hotel, to the…
1Opinion of the CourtDaly, J.
An innkeeper is not paid so much in money for taking charge of the property of his guest, but the custody of the goods is considered as accessory to, or following as a consequence of, the principal contract; as the carriage of a passenger’s luggage, for which no compensation is received, is accessory to the contract for the conveyance of the passenger. In the language of Sir William Jones, it comes within the class of cases, “ in which a man takes upon himself the custody of goods, in consideration of another gainful contracts Jones on Bailments, 93 ; Story on do. §§ 536, 487 ; 12 Mod. 487. *56Wh…
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