Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1934

Pate Hotel Co. v. Blair

Pate Hotel Co. v. Blair
Supreme Court of North Carolina · Decided December 12, 1934 · Staoy
177 S.E. 330; 207 N.C. 464; 1934 N.C. LEXIS 496 (South Eastern Reporter)

Pate Hotel Co. v. Blair

Opinion of the Court

Staoy, C. J.

It is provided by C. S., 2461, that every hotel or innkeeper who furnishes hotel accommodations to any person shall have a lien upon “all baggage or other property of such person . . . brought to such hotel” or inn, until all reasonable charges for such accommodations have been paid. The lien, however, would not attach to an automobile, the property of a third person, brought to the inn by the guest under circumstances disclosed by the present record. Covington v. Newberger, 99 N. C., 523, 6 S. E., 205; Cook v. Kane, 13 Or., 482, 51 Am. Rep., 28, and annotation.

Affirmed.

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