Edward D. Oppenheimer, Robert A. Burger, and St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company v. Morton Hotel Corporation, a Michigan Corporation

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. The district judge granted a judgment to the defendant-appellee on its motion for summary judgment and the plaintiffs-appellants appealed.

On November 9, 1957, Robert A. Burger, hereinafter sometimes called the guest, a diamond salesman, one of the appellants herein, registered in the hotel of the Morton Hotel Corporation, the appellee, hereinafter called the hotel. Mr. Burger was in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the situs of the hotel, making a preChristmas selling trip on behalf of his…