Alex W. Rothschild Co. v. Lynch

Plaintiff, a nonresident corporation domiciled in the city of New York, is a wholesale dealer in diamonds and jewelry, doing business with retail jewelers in various cities in the United States. It instituted this suit against the defendants, who, in the month of February, 1920, were operating as partners the Cosmopolitan Hotel, located in the city of New Orleans.

Plaintiff alleges that its president, Alex W. Rothschild, while on a business trip out of New York arrived in the city of New Orleans on or about the 13th day of February, 1920, and registered as a guest at said Cosmopolitan Hotel on…