Walpert v. Bohan
Supreme Court of Georgia
Complaint. Before Judge Seabrook. Chatham superior court.. January 27, 1906. Mrs. Walpert brought suit against William Bohan, alleging in substance as follows: Bohan was a resident of Chatham county,, and was during the month of May, 1905, the proprietor and owner of a certain seashore inn called “Bohan’s Pavillion,” or “Bohan’sHotel,” located on the island of Great Tybee, and was “at that time engaged at said place in the business of an innkeeper.
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Complaint. Before Judge Seabrook. Chatham superior court.. January 27, 1906. Mrs. Walpert brought suit against William Bohan, alleging in substance as follows: Bohan was a resident of Chatham county,, and was during the month of May, 1905, the proprietor and owner of a certain seashore inn called “Bohan’s Pavillion,” or “Bohan’sHotel,” located on the island of Great Tybee, and was “at that time engaged at said place in the business of an innkeeper. In connection with said inn, and as a part of said inn, and as a part of his-said business at said place as an innkeeper, said Bohan maintained a…
1Opinion of the CourtLumpkin, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
If one keeps an inn, and also, separate from the inn, keeps a bath-house where persons bathing in the sea change their garments *534and leave their clothes, he is not chargeable as an innkeeper for property stolen from the bath-house. Minor v. Staples, 71 Me. 316. In the opinion in this case it is said: “We are not now speaking of bathrooms attached to or kept within hotels, but of separate buildings, erected upon the seashore, and used, not as bathrooms, but as places in which those .who bathe in the sea change their garments and leave their clothes, and other…
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- Bunnell v. . SternNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Bonner v. WelbornSupreme Court of Georgia · 1849
- Dilberto v. HarrisSupreme Court of Georgia · 1894
- Minor v. StaplesSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1880
- Tombler v. KoellingSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1894
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