Pettigrew v. Barnum
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore city. Trespass on the case brought by the appellant against the appellees, on the 15th of February 1854, to recover damages for certain articles alleged to have been stolen from the plaintiff’s trunk, while in the room occupied by him as a guest in a hotel kept by the defendants in the city of Baltimore. Plea non cul. lsi Exception.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore city. Trespass on the case brought by the appellant against the appellees, on the 15th of February 1854, to recover damages for certain articles alleged to have been stolen from the plaintiff’s trunk, while in the room occupied by him as a guest in a hotel kept by the defendants in the city of Baltimore. Plea non cul. lsi Exception. The plaintiff read in evidence the deposition of Miss Mary Pettigrew, taken under a commission, to the effect that she was the sister of the plaintiff, and had travelled with him and his wife in Europe, during the summer…
1Opinion of the CourtTuck, J.
The appellant sued the appellees to recover damages for the *444robbery of his wife’s trunk, while a guest at their hotel. After having offered evidence tending to prove the robbery, the plaintiff proposed to show by his own testimony, taken under a commission, that the articles alleged to have been stolen were in the trunk, and the value of them. The entire deposition having been objected to, and rejected, he offered the second interrogatory propounded to himself, and the answer thereto, which were also objected to, and excluded, and to this last ruling the first' exception was taken.
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