Southwestern Hotel Co. v. Rogers

This case involves the construction of Article 4592, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes, which reads as follows: •

“Any hotel, apartment' hotel or boarding house keeper, who constantly has in his hotel, apartment hotel or boarding house a metal safe or vault in good order and fit for the custody of money, jewelry, articles of gold or silver manufacture, precious stones, personal ornaments, or documents of any kind, and who keeps on the doors of the sleeping rooms used by guests suitable locks or bolts and proper fastening on the transom and window of said room, shall not be liable for the loss…