Grimes v. M.H.M., Inc.

David Newbern, Justice.

The appellant, H. D. Grimes, is the owner of a coin and pawnshop in Conway, Arkansas. He checked in as a guest at the Camelot Hotel in Little Rock where a coin show was to be held and he was to display merchandise. He took his luggage, which consisted of some nine items loaded on a dolly he had brought with him, to his sleeping room. His luggage included a briefcase and a larger briefcase, like a salesman’s sample case, which, together, contained coins and jewelry he had brought for sale. The items in those two briefcases were, according to Mr. Grimes’s deposition…