LaFayette Hotel Co. v. Gordon & Ferguson

Ed. F. McFaddin, Associate Justice.

This is an action to recover for loss of property entrusted to one alleged to be a bailee. The plaintiff-owner is Gordon & Ferguson, Inc., and the defendant-alleged bailee is LaFayette Hotel Company.

Mr. Goldstein was a traveling salesman, and appellee’s samples1 were plainly visible in his car. Gold-stein registered as a guest at the LaFayette Hotel; the doorman took the car and contents for overnight parking; and was specifically instructed by Mr. Goldstein to carefully lock the car. The doorman of the hotel parked the Goldstein car in the basement of a…