Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22
COPY LAWS OF WISCONSIN PASSED DURING SESSION OF 1913

by guests suitable locks or bolts. and
who shall keep a copy OF this and the
next succeeding section printed to-
gether in large, plain English type
and framed. constantly and conspicu-
ously suspended and posted in the Of
fee, . and in five other conspicu-
GUS places = in his inn hotel.
and also copy printed together in
ordinary size. plain English type, post
ed = in conspicuous place in each
| public sleeping room of his inn or
hotel, shall be liable for the loss of
any such articles aforesaid suffered by
first offered to deliver such property
lost by him to such innkeeper or hotel
keeper for custody in such iron safe or
vault and such innkeeper or MOTEL
to take it and deposit it in such safe
or vault for it's custody and give such
guest receipt therefor: provided,
however, that the keeper of any inn or
from any one guest for deposit in such
safe or vault any property here
inbefore described exceeding a
s value ne Of three hi dol
any excess of such property. with
the exception that such innkeeper or
, hotelkeeper may, by special arrange
ment with guest, receive for deposit
in such safe or vault any property up
on such terms as may be mutually
agreed to in writing, but every inn
keeper or hotelkeeper, upon produce
ton of such receipt and demand by the
owner thereof, shall be liable for any
loss of the above enumerated articles,
| the property of guest in his inn or
hotel. after said articles have been
accepted for deposit.
Section 1926. No innkeeper or hotel
keeper shall be liable for the loss of
any baggage or other property of his
guest caused by fire not intentional,
produced by the innkeeper, hotelkeep-
OF a hiIt
innkeeper or hoteikeeper shall be liable
for any loss of any baggage or other
property of any guest In his inn or
hotel caused by theft or gross neg1i-
or any of his servants; provided, how
ever, that in no case shall such liabil-
ity exceed the sum of two hundred
dollars for each trunk and it's con-
tents, seventy-five dollars for each
va1ise and it's contents, and ten dol
lars for each box, bundle, or package
and contents, so placed under his care,
and all other miscellaneous effects in
GLIDING wearing apparel and personal
belongings, fifty dollars, unIess he
shall have consented in writing with
such guest to assume a greater liabil-
ity And provided further, whenever
or property to remain in any inn or
hotel, after leaving the same as a
guest, and after the relation of inn
keeper and guest between such guest
and the proprietor Of such inn or
hotel has ceased, or shall forward the
same to such inn or hotel before be-
coming q guest thereof and the same
shall be received into such inn or
hotel, such innkeeper or hotelkeeper
shall hold such baggage or property
at the risk of such owner.
Section 2. There is added to the sta
tutes a new section to read: Section
/ 1725a. 1t shall be the duty of every
guest and of everyone intending to be
a guest of any hotel in this state, up
on delivering to the proprietor OF sucn
hotel, or to his servants, any baggage
or other articles of property of such
guests for safe keeping elsewhere
than to the room assigned to such
guesD, to demand, and of such hotel
proprietor to give, a check or receipt
therefor in such case, to evidence the
fact of such delivery; and no hotel
proprietor shall be liable for the loss
of or injury to such baggage or other
articles of property of his guest, UNI
less the same shall have been actually
delivered by such guest to such hotel
proprietor or his servants for safe
keeping, or unless such loss or injury
shall have occurred through the negli-
gence of such hotel proprietor, or by
his servants or employees in such
hotel.
Section 8. This act shall take eff
feet upon passage and publication.
Approved June IA, 1913. Copy Law.