Layton v. Seward Corporation

In this suit, tried in the circuit court without a jury, plaintiff had judgment for $3,500. The defendant has appealed.

The Seward .Corporation owns and operates the Seward Hotel in Detroit. Plaintiff and his wife occupied a room in the hotel from some time in May, 1945 until the latter part of September. Relative to the circumstances which gave rise to this litigation, we quote the following. Plaintiff testified:

“I had three occasions, while living at the Seward Hotel, to leave money for safekeeping with the clerk, each time leaving about four or five hundred dollars. On the 16th of July,…