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HOTEL CORP. OF AMERICA v. TRAVELERS INDEMNITY CO.

No. 3954.

229 A.2d 158 (1967)

HOTEL CORPORATION OF AMERICA, a corporation, Appellant, v. The TRAVELERS INDEMNITY COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 19, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sol Friedman, Leonard L. Lipshultz, Peter S. Taylor and Stephen H. Galt, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

John P. Diuguid, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, MYERS, Associate Judge, and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired).

HOOD, Chief Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of appellee insurance company for $4,000, the sum it had paid its insured, a Mrs. Glendenning, for the loss of her fur coat while she was a guest at appellant's hotel. Appellant urges reversal on two grounds.

First, it is argued that it was error to hold the hotel to the strict liability imposed by the common-law doctrine of infra hospitium1 because, it is claimed, Mrs...

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