Kisten v. Hildebrand

This action on the case was brought to recover from Kisten, as an inn keeper, a large sum of money alleged to have ^een taken> through the default and negligence of the defendant, his servants, &c., from the trunk of the plaintiff, in the inn of the defendant, he [the-plaintiff, being then a guest therein. The form of proceeding against inn keepers in England, upon the custom of the realm, seems 1o have been substantially pursued. *73The declaration sets out as the foundation of the action, that “by the custom and law of this Commonwealth, inn keepers who keep common inns for entertaining men…