Buck v. HANKIN

Opinion by

Cercone, J.,

Plaintiff, H. George Buck, was a paying guest of the defendant George Washington Motor Lodge on October 22,1965, when, at sometime after midnight, while he was in bed in the room assigned him, he was awakened by the noise of an intruder in his room. Plaintiff was instructed to remain still and to turn his back while he, the night prowler, pulled the phone from the wall and escaped with plaintiff’s cash, a ring and watch. A screen on the window nearest the door was found to have been pried open and apparently had provided the means of the thief’s ingress.

Plaintiff…