{
  "id": 2615101,
  "name": "G. E. Vandergrift, Appellee, v. C. O. Clark Hotel Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Vandergrift v. C. O. Clark Hotel Co.",
  "decision_date": "1908-03-18",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "256",
  "last_page": "258",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "140 Ill. App. 256"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "parties": [
      "G. E. Vandergrift, Appellee, v. C. O. Clark Hotel Company, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Myers\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAppellee brought suit in assumpsit against appellant to recover $250 claimed to have been deposited by appellee for safekeeping with the clerk of appellant\u2019s hotel. The case was tried by jury and resulted in verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $250, from which the defendant appealed.\nBetween eleven and twelve o\u2019clock at night, August 3, 1906, appellee went to the Royal Hotel, East St. Louis, registered as a guest and was assigned to a room by the night clerk, Floyd Calvert. He left -with the clerk $250 for safekeeping and was given a receipt for the money. His father came with him to the hotel, and together they went to his room and ordered supper, which was sent in from an outside restaurant. After supper he and his father had some controversy about private matters and the father left. Soon thereafter appellee went down to the office, paid his bill, fifty cents, and ordered a carriage to take him to Belleville, fourteen miles distant. On the ninth day of August appellant received the following telegram:\n\u201cGadsden, Ala., Aug. 9th.\n\u201cTo The Royal Hotel,\n\u201cBast St. Louis, Ill.\n\u201cI stopped with you August 3d and left $250 in \u201ccharge of your clerk at your desk and at present \u201chold your receipt for same, but had misplaced for \u201cseveral days. An answer to me here at my expense \u201cwould oblige me by telegram.\u201d\nG. E. Vandergrift.\u201d\nUpon his return to Bast St. Louis, a week later, appellee presented his receipt and demanded the $250 left with the clerk August 3d. Appellee testifies that he forgot to call for the deposit the night he paid his bill and left the hotel. The clerk, Calvert, testifies that he returned to appellee his money, but forgot to take up the receipt. Other circumstances corroborating Calvert appear in evidence, which we do not recite. Calvert is also corroborated by two other witnesses, apparently disinterested, who swear that they were present, that appellee was drunk and that they saw Calvert pay Mm his money, which he counted out and said was all right. After careful consideration of all the evidence shown by the abstract and record, we are clearly of opinion that it preponderates largely in favor of the appellant. The evidence tends strongly to prove that appellee was intoxicated and lacking in memory of what occurred at the hotel when he paid Ms bill and left. That he did not discover his loss for almost a week is a circumstance that should have weight, and Ms uncertainty, even then, as to what had become of Ms money may be inferred from the telegram of August 9th. As the case is to be remanded for another trial, we forbear further discussion of the evidence. The only instruction given in the trial is subject to the objection made by appellant, and the error is not likely to be repeated onhnother trial. We deem further comment unnecessary. The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.\nReversed and remanded.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Myers"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Louden & Crow, for appellant.",
      "Henry T. Kent and R. V. Gustin, for appellee."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "G. E. Vandergrift, Appellee, v. C. O. Clark Hotel Company, Appellant.\nVebdiot\u2014when set aside as against the evidence. A verdict clearly and manifestly against the weight of the evidence will be set aside on review.\nAssumpsit. Appeal from the City Court of East St. Louis; the Hon. W. J. N. Moyebs, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the August term, 1907.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed March 18, 1908.\nLouden & Crow, for appellant.\nHenry T. Kent and R. V. Gustin, for appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0256-01",
  "first_page_order": 274,
  "last_page_order": 276
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