Legal Opinion

Crosby v. 20 Fifth Avenue Hotel Co.

Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York

Decided January 5, 1940PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Per curiam

A hotel is not chargeable as a bailee for a valuable antique left in a trunk where plaintiff did not give notice that the trunk contained anything but ordinary personal luggage. (Waters v. Beau Site Co., 114 Misc. 65; Magnin v. Dinsmore, 62 N. Y. 35.)

Judgment modified by reducing the amount thereof to the sum of seventy-five dollars, with costs, and as modified affirmed, with twenty-five dollars costs to the appellants.

All concur. Present — Hammer, Shientag and Noonan, JJ.

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Magnin v. . DinsmoreNew York Court of Appeals · 1875
  2. Waters v. Beau Site Co.City of New York Municipal Court · 1920

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Tishman & Lipp, Inc. v. Delta AirlinesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1967
  2. Williams Dental Co. v. Air Express InternationalDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1993
  3. Swarth v. Barney's Clothes, Inc.Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1963
  4. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company v. Chicago Union Station CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1958
  5. Salisbury v. St. Regis-Sheraton Hotel Corp.District Court, S.D. New York · 1980

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