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SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1927.

LOSS OF A MOTOR

CAR.

HOTEL KEEPER'S LIABILITY,

A common jury found for the plaintiff who claimed #276 108.

Od.

of

car

MOTORISTS PETITION,

THE GOVERNMENT AND ROADS.

A vary Interesting and highly The Motorists Petition to Parliament, organised by the important judgment was pronounc-Automobile Association, was pro ed by Mr. Justice Swift in the sented in the House of Commons King's Bench Division of the High on 23rd June by Lieut. Col. C. K. Court of Justice.

Howard-Bury, D:S:0., M.P., who was supported by Members of all Parties including the Rt. Hon. J. 1. Macpherson, K.C., M.P., Lt. Col. in respect of the Ioss C. K. James, M.P., Captain R. his motor"

while Briscoe, M.P., Sir Robert Thomas, it was "parked" on a piece of M.P. The Hon. C. A. Rhys, land adjoining the hotel. It was M.P., The Rev. H. Dunnico, M.P., stated by Counsel that the plaintiff Mr. Ernest Brown, M.P., Mr. Bon went to the hotel for dinner and Smith, M.P., Capt. W. Brass, M.P., was told by the porter that as there Mr. R. A. Taylor, M.P., Major H. was no room for his car in the E. Crawfurd, M.P., Mr. J. A. street outside the hotel, he should Parkinson, M.P. put it on a "parking" place which adjoined the hotel. When the plaintiff was at dinner the car dis appeared. It was alleged that the servants of the hotel did not keep the car safely, and because of their default the car was lost. In addi- tion, the defondants implied the re- presentation that the "parking": place was a safe and proper place in which to leave the car, and that sign boarde indicated the same thing.

Judgment,

Mr. Justice Swift, in giving judg ment, unid that the case illustrated how the common law of England continued applicable to the chang- ing circumstances of the everyday life of the people of this country.) The long-established law with re- gard to an innkeeper's liability was to-day as applicable to chauffeurs and motor-cars as it formerly had been to people who rode on horses and drove in gigs.

Signed throughout the United Kingdom by over 360.000 motor owners and drivers, the Petition

urges-

(1) that the proceeds of motor taxation now remaining in the Road Fund and the motor taxes hereafter to be levied shall be applied to road purposes only.

(2) that, if in the opinion of Parliament the sums now raised by motor taxation exceed the amount required for road purposes, the exist ing acale of motor licence duties shall be reduced.

(3) that in any rearrangement

of Government Offices, a Reads Department, with a representative in Parlia mert may be maintained as a distinct and separate branch of the Administra- tion for the purposes of providing and maintaining roads suitable and sufficient for the rapidly increasing requirements of modern road traffic.

The defendant's had admitted that i they had taken no precautions to look after the plaintiff's car. They said that they had simply provided facilities for the "parking of the motor-car. He had no doubt that when the motor-car was brought to

It is the intention of the Auto- the defendants' hotel by the plain-mobile Association to press these tiff it was put into the custody of points through every available the servants of the defendants. The channel, and arrangements hava plaintiff, it was true, drove his own already been made for the import- motorcar to the place where it was ant questions concerning mater left, but he did so under direction taxation and the Rond Fund to be of the defendants' porter, and the raised again when the Finance Bill defendants were just as responsible enters upon the Committee Stage. as if the plaintiff had got out of the motor-car at the door of the hotel and had left it to be taken. or i sent to the "park" by the hall porter. If he had taken the latter course he (his Lordship) would have had no doubt that the defend- ants would have been liable.

The piece of land where the plain- tiff left his motor-car was common- ly used by guests at the hotel for "parking" their motor-cars while they took their meals, and, for the purposes of the present case, it must, therefore, be taken to be part of the hotel. The relationship of innkeepers and guest existed be tween the defendants and the plaintiff, and the law had been plain for hundreds of years that an inn keeper was responsible for the safe custody of goods belonging to his guests which came on his pre- mises,

He did not say that what had happened was the fault of the de- fendants. He decided nothing about negligence. His decision was based on the fact that the plaintiff's motor-car was lost from the defendant's inn. In those cir- cumstances ari innkeeper, was liable for the goods which had been lost.

Judgment was entered according- ly for the plaintiff for £267 10s. with costs.

Sentence of death was passed at Kent Assizes recently on Eliza Emma Neal, aged 19, for murder- ing her six-month-old child at Bromley. A schoolboy, saw the girl throw a parcel into a pond, his attention being attracted by hearing a scream. Later he fished the parcel out, and found, it con- tained the body of a child. When charged, the girl said: "I had nowhere to take it, and want to do away with myself. Dr. Morton said the girl was perfectly rational. and showed no signs of remorse. The jury, including two recommended her to merey on ac- count of her age. The girl cried bitterly while sentence was being: passed, and murmured, "I have nothing to say except that I am very sorry."

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