Hall v. Hotel Sherman Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff alleges that while a guest at defendant’s hotel he placed $1,000 in money in a deposit envelope and gave it to the cashier to be deposited in defendant’s safe or vault, but defendant afterwards negligently permitted it to be carried away by some other person, so that when plaintiff asked for the return of his envelope defendant did not return it, but tendered another envelope not the plaintiff’s. Upon suit for the money claimed to have been thus lost, the jury returned a verdict for $1,108, the amount claimed to have…