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Crosby v. 20 Fifth Ave. Hotel Co., Inc.

Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department
Jan 5, 1940
173 Misc. 604 (N.Y. App. Term 1940)

Opinion

January 5, 1940.

Appeal from the Municipal Court of the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, Fourth District.

Edward Morrison [ Campbell Boland of counsel], for the appellants.

Harold Green, for the respondent.



A hotel is not chargeable as a bailee for a valuable antique left in a trunk where plaintiff did not give notice that the trunk contained anything but ordinary personal luggage. ( Waters v. Beau Site Co., 114 Misc. 65; Magnin v. Dinsmore, 62 N.Y. 35. )

Judgment modified by reducing the amount thereof to the sum of seventy-five dollars, with costs, and as modified affirmed, with twenty-five dollars costs to the appellants.

All concur. Present — HAMMER, SHIENTAG and NOONAN, JJ.


Summaries of

Crosby v. 20 Fifth Ave. Hotel Co., Inc.

Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department
Jan 5, 1940
173 Misc. 604 (N.Y. App. Term 1940)
Case details for

Crosby v. 20 Fifth Ave. Hotel Co., Inc.

Case Details

Full title:JOHN P. CROSBY, Respondent, v. 20 FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL CO., INC., and 49TH…

Court:Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department

Date published: Jan 5, 1940

Citations

173 Misc. 604 (N.Y. App. Term 1940)
17 N.Y.S.2d 498

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