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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SUPERIOR COURT.
    FALL SESSIONS.
    1873.
    Harry L. Albertson v. George S. Grier.
    Air action on account, or on the case, will not lie before a justice of the peace by the owner of an umbrella against a hotel-keeper, for the loss of it while he was a guest in his house.
    Certiorari. The record was as follows : Action on account for the loss of one umbrella. Demand $2.25. Summons issued &c. The exception was that the cause of action was not within the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace, and was not a matter properly chargeable in an account. Albertson was the keeper of a hotel .and the umbrella was placed in his keeping as such, by Grier while a guest at his house, and was there lost, and if any action was maintainable, it could only be in case for negligence, and on the common law liability of the keeper of the hotel for the safety of it while in his house ; and no such action was cognizable before a justice of the peace.
   The Court

reversed the judgment.