Clark v. Ball

Appellee, as plaintiff below, prosecuted this action against James Fogarty and John Clark, defendants, a copartnership in the hotel business, to recover the sum of $650 alleged to have been deposited by plaintiff, as a guest of the hotel, with Fogarty, one of the members of the copartnership.

Briefly stated, the material averments of the complaint are: That the defendants on the 25th day of December, 1900, were copartners and doing business as such in the town of Moffat in conducting a hotel; that on said date the plaintiff was a guest of the hotel conducted by the defendants; that as a guest…