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In the King's Bench Division, London, recently. the conclusion was reached of the case in which Mr. Hugh Mortimer Gann, a for- mer Vice-Consul at Milan, sued the Hotel Cecil (Ltd.), for. £3106 for the loss of a cardboard box containing a collection of memoire, photographs, and other papers, which he had deposited with a porter at the hotel on Juno. 4, 1925.
The defendants, In admitting that the box was deposited at the hotel, denied they were guilty of negligence and pleaded alterna- tively that their ability was
mited to £30.
Mr. Singleton. K.C., Tor the plaintiff, in opening the case, said that Mr. Gann had held various appointments in different countries, including British Consul at Carls bad and later Vice-Consul at Milan, and had amassed a con- siderable amount of information
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In June 1935, on leaving the Hotel Ceell he placed with the porter at the hotel a cardboard |box containing his personal docu-i ments and papers containing con- fidential information. While abrond, he received through the post an open letter which had been in the box. When he com-
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by the hotel detective that un- 19 fortunately the box had got inta 21 the rubbish curi and had been 124 taken to a dust destructor. He | 26 accounted for the appearance of 27 the one letter by the probability 29 that it had been blown off the dust 31
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Small bay (Shetland), Spring. Rednub. 34 Lonely, 35 Liko.
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Cross-xamined by Sir Henry 37 Indian soldier. Maddocks, K.C, for the Hotd | 38. Fatty. Ceril, Mr. Gann admitted that h 40 Neat. know there was a pecial strangeable in water. room provided in charge of the 44 Heavenly body, hotel achier for valuables.
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the deposit of
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Something might be valuable for one person." remarked wit ness, "and not valuable to the 150 world at large.
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Answering another Mr. Gaan suid, "If the cardboard(8 box had contained hank notes or Jewellery, I sh'nid not have left it in the hotel store, I never re- garded the papers in my box in
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Witmers' said he claimed dam- ages for deliberata negligence on the part of the hotel.
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By whom?That is what I should like to know and have bies trying to find out. It is one of the reasons I have come into this Court.
The Lord Chief Justice-If you are berusian people of having deliberately destroyed or made away with the contents of this box you ought to have pleaded i
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Witness--Somebody pass-book back to the bank, and my view is that he must have gone through my papers in the box be fore he could have done 36,
Sir Henry When You were ask ed if there was anything of value
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Witness replied that he cer- tainly never said so.
The only theory advanced 1. him as to the return to him of letter which he had left in the box was that given by a servant at the hotel who considered that it had been blown off a dust-cart in Belvedere Road when dust was b ing conveyed from the hotel to : barge at the wharf. When in- quiries werd made at the West minster Council, however, he was told that they had rot sent any dust to the whar? al Belvedure Bond for several years.
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Wither further said tint when it, there was prima facie evidence his bank passbook and the letter of negligence by the defendants. rame back to him he formed the impression that the things in the box were being "dribbled" back in the hope that he might offer some reward for the return of the contents.
In re-examination, witness said he told the end porter at the hotel he would give £50 for the return of the box.
The Question of Negligence. At the elise of the plaintiff's case. Sir Henry Maddocks, K.C.,
for the defence, said that if the
Th Lord Chief Justice said he was not satisfied that there was any evidence of negligence at to be considered by the jury. He thought that plaintiff was bound by the conditions on the receipt hu received when he placed the box in the custody of defendants'
and which provided that they wer
10 be responsible for more than £10 per package in the event ef damage or loss."
Settled for £10.
His Lordship said he was not in
the least degree satisfied that the plaintiff was entitled to succeed under the Innkeepers Att his dam contents of the box were worth ages would be Imited to £36. 1 Whatever view the jury the contract on the deposit ticket might have taken of the matter if was the one on which the defen- the question had been left to them, dants were to be held liable the his Lordship did not profess to know. I might be that they
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