Pinkerton v. Woodward
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The defendant was sued as an innkeeper to recover for the loss of one hundred and sixty-eight ounces of gold dust, the property of the plaintiff; fifteen hundred dollars, gold coin, at the time of loss the property of the plaintiff’s assignor, Robert Walker; and two hundred and twenty-seven and a half ounces of gold dust, at the time of loss the joint property of the plaintiff’s…
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Appeal from the District Court, Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The defendant was sued as an innkeeper to recover for the loss of one hundred and sixty-eight ounces of gold dust, the property of the plaintiff; fifteen hundred dollars, gold coin, at the time of loss the property of the plaintiff’s assignor, Robert Walker; and two hundred and twenty-seven and a half ounces of gold dust, at the time of loss the joint property of the plaintiff’s assignors, Michael Lynn and Duncan McKinnon. In his complaint the plaintiff “ Complains of Robert B. Woodward, defendant,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Rhodes, J.:
The definition of an inn, given by Mr. Justice Bayley, in Thompson v. Lacy, 3 B. and Aid. 286, as “ a house where a traveller is furnished with everything which he has occasion for while on his way,” is comprehensive enough to include every description of an inn; but a house that does not fill the full measure of this definition may be an inn. It probably would not now be regarded as essential to an inn that wine or spirituous or malt liquors should be provided for the guests. At an inn of the greatest completeness entertainment is furnished for the traveller’s horse…
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