Andrews v. Southwestern Hotel Co.

The Goldman Hotel is one of the leading hotels in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It has no garage for the accommodation of automobiles of its guests, but usually notifies a nearby garage of the arrival of such cars which are desired to be stored, such notice being given by an electric bell connected with the garage from the clerk’s office and operated by a push button. No one had access to this push button except the clerk on duty and the telephone operator at the hotel. When a guest arrived with a car which was desired to be stored, it was the custom to notify the garage by means of the push button,…