Edwards Hotel Co. v. Terry

As an invited guest of the Jitney-Jungle Stores and McCarty-Holman Company, the appellee attended an annual banquet and dance tendered the employees of these companies one evening at the Edwards Hotel in Jackson, when his automobile was stealthily and feloniously taken and carried away from the hotel’s free parking lot, and thereafter wrecked, damaged, and rendered almost worthless by the act of a stranger who came on the parking lot from the direction of the hotel building at about 1 o’clock in the morning — the approximate hour for the closing of the entertainment — and called for the car,…