Singer Manufacturing Co. v. Miller
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, Christopher C. Miller, from a judgment of the District Court of Hennepin County, Canty, J., entered September 26, 1892, against him for $46. Defendant kept a public inn in Minneapolis called the Hotel Grace. On December 1, 1890, Carl Yan Baden, his wife and two children were received by defendant as boarders, at $15 per week. They remained until June 8, 1891. Among the effects which they brought to the inn was a Singer Sewing Machine.
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Appeal by defendant, Christopher C. Miller, from a judgment of the District Court of Hennepin County, Canty, J., entered September 26, 1892, against him for $46. Defendant kept a public inn in Minneapolis called the Hotel Grace. On December 1, 1890, Carl Yan Baden, his wife and two children were received by defendant as boarders, at $15 per week. They remained until June 8, 1891. Among the effects which they brought to the inn was a Singer Sewing Machine. When they left, Van Baden owed $240.50 balance for their board. The defendant detained his goods, claiming a lien on them for this sum. The…
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
The court below found the facts as stipulated by the parties in the agreed statement of facts, as submitted, and, *518as a legal conclusion, that the plaintiff was entitled to judgment. The defendant claimed an innkeeper’s lien upon the chattel in controversy, a sewing machine, on the ground that it was brought to his hotel by a guest, who, it now appears, had contracted to purchase the same of plaintiff, but the title had not passed, though the possession had been delivered. The defendant, however, had no notice of the plaintiff’s claim, and insists upon his lien thereon, with other goods of the…
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