Treiber v. Burrows
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from tlie Circuit Court for Allegany County. This action was brought by the appellee to recover the value of a trunk and its contents, and a chest of tea, alleged to have been lost while he was stopping, as a guest, at the Revere House, a public hotel in Cumberland, of which the appellant was the proprietor.
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Appeal from tlie Circuit Court for Allegany County. This action was brought by the appellee to recover the value of a trunk and its contents, and a chest of tea, alleged to have been lost while he was stopping, as a guest, at the Revere House, a public hotel in Cumberland, of which the appellant was the proprietor. The trunk, besides clothing, contained $1,500 in ten-dollar hills of the Rank of Upper Canada. 1st Exception: The appellee (plaintiff below,) after having introduced evidence to maintain the issue joined on his part, offered in evidence a commission executed in Upper Canada, by…
1Opinion of the CourtWeisel, J.
This case came before this Court on a former appeal, in which the present appellee was .then the appellant, and which was sustained upon an error in the only ruling of the Court below then under examination, and that was the want of evidence to support the instruction relative to the neglect and carelessness of the guest himself hy which the trunk was lost. That being an appeal by the present appellee, no objection was of course taken hy him to the fact that the prayer covered the trunk and all its contents set out in the declaration, and consequently the particular question which has been…
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