SPLAWN v. LEXTAJ CORP., NV


197 A.D.2d 479 (1993)

603 N.Y.S.2d 41

Peggy W. Splawn, Respondent, v. Lextaj Corp., NV, Appellant, and Pinkerton's Inc., Respondent, et al., Defendants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

October 28, 1993


The hotel logbook entries containing reports of burglaries and thefts on the premises were not hearsay since they were offered not for the truth of the matters asserted but to show that the hotel had received the information and was therefore on notice of criminal activity. Since the business record rule was therefore not implicated it was immaterial that the hotel guests who made the reports were under no duty to do so. In any...

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