Labold v. Southern Hotel Co.

— The plaintiff is a traveling salesman, who had frequently put up at the defendant’s hotel. The defendant had at its hotel a cloak room where its guests deposited their overcoats and hand baggage for temporary storage, receiving checks therefor; and the plaintiff was aware of that fact. The defendant had also a servant stationed at the entrance of its dining room, who received from guests entering it their hats and overcoats, and kept them in temporary custody while the guests were at their meals. The fact that this servant was in the habit of doing this was well known to the managers of the…