Lawrence v. Howard

Lawrence and Mann sued Howard upon a board bilb which had been assigned to them by Tilden & Lawrence-The latter were hotel keepers in Salt Lake City, and Plaintiffs were their successors in business.

The Defendant denies the account, and for further defense, sets up that Plaintiffs are indebted to him in a sum exceeding said account, for baggage and.clothing of his, detained by Plaintiffs, and converted to their own use.

In this country hotel keepers act in a double capacity, being both innkeepers and boarding-house keepers. As innkeepers, they entertain travelers and transient persons, those…