Rarrick v. Browne

OPINION

By HILDEBRANT, J.:

On trial before a jury in the Municipal Court of Cincinnati, at the suit of a guest against an innkeeper, for the value of personal property stolen during the night while the guest was asleep in the room, the plaintiff testified to his registering and being assigned and conducted to a room, creating the relationship of guest and innkeeper, and as to the items and value of the property which was the subject of the unexplained theft.

At the conclusion of plaintiff’s testimony, which was all the evidence offered, the court directed the jury to return a verdict for the…