Allen v. Grove Springs Hotel & Steamboat Co.

This action was brought to recover the value of a piano which the plaintiff claimed to have sold to the defendant in the spring of 1887 at the agreed price of $450. The defendant is a foreign corporation organized under the laws of the state of Illinois. In 1877 it was the proprietor of a summer hotel at the village of Grove Springs, on Lake Keuka, known as the “Grove Springs Hotel.” The hotel, prior to the spring of 1883, had been run by a tenant of the defendant. In the spring of that year the defendant assumed its management. There was at that time in the hotel a piano belonging to the…