Lanier v. Youngblood
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Montgomery Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. Tiios. H. Watts, sr., Special Judge. This was an action by William Youngblood against Clifford A. Lanier, as the keeper of a public hotel or inn in the citjr of Montgomery, known as the “Exchange Hotel,” to recover damages for the loss of money and jewelry, alleged to have been stolen or wrongfully taken and carried away from plaintiff’s room, while he was a guest at said hotel.
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Appeal from Montgomery Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. Tiios. H. Watts, sr., Special Judge. This was an action by William Youngblood against Clifford A. Lanier, as the keeper of a public hotel or inn in the citjr of Montgomery, known as the “Exchange Hotel,” to recover damages for the loss of money and jewelry, alleged to have been stolen or wrongfully taken and carried away from plaintiff’s room, while he was a guest at said hotel. The pleadings, other than the complaint, are not set out in. the record. The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, from which the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
— The plaintiff in the present action seeks to charge the defendant, Lanier, as keeper of the Exchange Hotel, in the city of Montgomery, for the loss of about sixty dollars in money, a watch and chain, and other articles of jewelry of small value, worn about his person, which are shown to have been stolen during the night, from a room in the hotel occupied by the plaintiff, who was a transient guest or customer.
It is first insisted for the defendant, that, inasmuch as the evidence shows that lie had never taken out a license, as keeper of a regular inn or hotel under the provisions of the…
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