Dessauer v. Baker

Suit by a guest against an inn-keeper, upon his common law liability as such.

Judgment at Special Term against the defendant.

The case is this: On the third of February, 1873, between the hours of 7 and 8 o’clock p. m., Dessauer, the plaintiff, stopped at the Mason House, a hotel in Indianapolis, kept by the defendant, Baker, registered his namej and asked for a room by himself.' The clerk responded that no such room could be furnished him, but that he could have a bed in room No. 59, a room in which there were three beds, one of which was already taken by a Mr. Underwood, and that no other…