Williams v. Norvell-Shapleigh Hardware Co.

This was an action commenced by the defendant in error, plaintiff below, against the plaintiff in error, de fendant below, to recover damages for the loss of certain merchandise belonging to the plaintiff, which was stolen while in the sample room of the Whittington Hotel, at Ardmore, of which the defendant was proprietor. The petition alleged, in substance, that on the 2d day of August, 1906, one George Vickers, a traveling salesman for the plaintiff, was a guest at said hotel, and had with him said merchandise as samples; that while said samples were in the sample room of said hotel said…