Gilbert v. Williams
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Sixth District. Action by Samuel Gilbert against Belle W. Williams. From a judgment in favor of defendant, plaintiff appeals. Affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtGildersleeve, P. J.
Defendant kept a boarding house at Nos. 5, 7, 9, and 11 East Thirty-First street. The principal entrance was in No. 7, and there was a boy in charge of that entrance. Plaintiff had a *716room in No. 5. The boarders, or at least some of them, had latch keys to the entrance door of No. 5, at which entrance there was no hall boy. On May 3, 1907, plaintiff left his room in the morning and was absent, as usual, most of the day. He claims he locked his door, upon leaving the room, and placed the key under the carpet in the hall, as he had been requested to do by the chambermaid. It seems that there was…
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