Flint v. Illinois Hotel Co.

This is a suit by appellee, a traveling salesman, against the Illinois Hotel Company, appellant, conducting a hotel at Bloomington, Illinois, to recover the value of a suit-case and its contents alleged to have been delivered to a servant of appellant to be kept for appellee as a guest of the hotel, which suitcase and its contents were thereafter lost. Upon the hearing of the case before the court without a jury there was a finding and judgment against appellant for $63.75.

The evidence tends to show and the court was warranted in finding, that appellee upon his arrival at Bloomington by train…