Adelphia Hotel Co. v. Providence Stock Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; Oliver B. Dickinson, Judge. Action at law by the Providence Stock-Company against the Adelphia Hotel Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings, error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.
The action is in trespass for the loss of the contents of a trunk. It was brought on the liability of the defendant hotel company for the safe keeping of a trunk committed to its care under circumstances presently to be stated. The verdict was for the plaintiff. After judgment the defendant sued out this writ of error.
Samuels was a traveling salesman in the employ of the plaintiff, a jewelry concern of Providence, Rhode Island. When in Philadelphia he had regularly been a guest at the Hotel Adelphia, operated by the defendant company.
*906On the trip in question Samuels went…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Union Pac. R. v. LucasCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1905
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- Fisher v. KelseySupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Tulane Hotel Co. v. HolohanTennessee Supreme Court · 1903
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