Legal Opinion
Gooden v. Day's Inn
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided June 26, 1990No. A90A0371PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McMurray, Presiding Judge.
Plaintiff Marvin L. Gooden checked into a Day’s Inn in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 3, 1988, paying in advance for two-day’s lodging. The next day, plaintiff temporarily left his room, leaving a paper bag filled with U. S. currency. (According to plaintiff, the bag contained $9,000.) Shortly thereafter, Mary Carter, a housekeeper, went into plaintiff’s room to clean it. She found the bag of money. Seeing no other personal effects, Ms. Carter assumed plaintiff had checked out. Accordingly, she turned the bag and its contents over to Vivian Clark, her immediate…
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