CLAIM BY HOTEL GUEST

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1935, Page 9

CLAIM BY HOTEL GUEST

SELT-LOCKING DOOR UNBOLTED. LONDON, July 5. An unusual case under the Innkeepers' Act camo before Judge Sir Alfred Tobin at Westminster County Court, yesterday, anti was adjourned generally after the judge had suggested a ‘'friendly settlement." Mr. Arthur Andrew, an auditor. Hays-road, Ash ton-under-Lyme, sued Bark Lane Hotel Ltd.. Piccadilly. M.. as proprietors of Shaftesbury Hotel, Great. St. Andrew-street. W.C,, for Cl 3, alleged to have been lost while staying there. Ho told the court that bis bedroom door locked automatically when shut, and could only be opened from the outside with a key. At night he left his wallet on the dressing table and he missed Via in the morning. When ho reported his loss he found that the key of his room titled other doors on the landing. There was a bolt on his door, but he had not noticed it. Counsel for the hotel company, pleading that the guest had been guilty of contributor.' negligence, put in the hotel rules asking visitors to (leave jewellery and money with the cashier, and stating the proprietors would 11"! in' responsible for money left in a loom. Sir Alfred Tobin. What does "b-ft in a room" mean’’ I can understand lit if otic went out tor the daj and b-ft rnom-y there, but putting it on the dressing table .it night. I doubt p Is a man bound to bolt hit door j< ]>,. b>< I. !’ ‘ Tin' I- admit! edly ,i li - hop. -t < laim I .Mi Hubei! Amiersom man avs m j tn. hot. I aid that m d-.d not know jibe ke> would open Io rooms A large i notice <d the rules was hung in • h i room ' After . uiiiiiiliii: a < opy of the ii'> Mlle, tile mdgo .‘-aid lie could not or ; ant thing about bolt Ing doors. H” | thought tli.it. but lor insurance com- ! panic ~ Hi, hotel would hoc wi-.di ct Ib d th- mat ter. I Utt • I !"!' the part I. I.ilb d . ..ii;. io at!’, a;•!■■••!>..?!•