If an innkeeper, hotelkeeper, operator of a licensed hospital, rest home or sanitarium, boardinghouse or lodginghouse keeper, keeps a fireproof safe and gives notice to a guest, patient, boarder or lodger, either personally or by putting up a printed notice in a prominent place in the office or the room occupied by the guest, patient, boarder, or lodger, that he keeps such a safe and will not be liable for money, jewelry, documents, furs, fur coats and fur garments, or other articles of unusual value and small compass, unless placed therein, he is not liable, except so far as his own acts shall contribute thereto, for any
loss of or injury to such articles, if not deposited with him to be placed therein, nor in any case for more than the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) for any or all such property of any individual guest, patient, boarder, or lodger, unless he shall have given a receipt in writing therefor to such guest, patient, boarder or lodger.
Notes of Decisions
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2 in the last 5 years), 1950–2025 · leading case:
Taylor v. Forte Hotels Int'l, 91 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 8821 (Cal. Ct. App. 1991).
Taylor v. Forte Hotels Int'l, 91 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 8821 (Cal. Ct. App. 1991).
“5 Civil Code section 1860, as well, relieves an innkeeper of the burden of common law liability as insurer for the loss of a guest’s personal property, and protects him from an undisclosed liability for such property.”
Nova Stylings, Inc. v. Red Roof Inns, Inc., 747 P.2d 107 (Kan. 1987).
“2d 963 (1954), the issue before the court involved interpretation of the last clause of Cal. Civ. Code § 1860 (West 1954), which provided that an innkeeper would not be liable “in any case for more than the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for any or all such property .”
Pac. Diamond Co. v. Superior Court, 85 Cal. App. 3d 871 (Cal. Ct. App. 1978).
“California Civil Code section 1860 provides: “If an innkeeper, hotel keeper, operator of a licensed hospital, rest home or sanitarium, boarding house or lodging house keeper, keeps a fireproof safe and gives notice to a guest, patient, boarder or lodger, either personally or by…”
Jackson v. Donovan, 215 Cal. App. 2d 685 (Cal. Ct. App. 1963).
“909 ]; Civ. Code, § 1860; Han *692 rahan-Wilcox Corp.”
Bjb Elec. Lp v. Bridgelux, Inc. (N.D. Cal. 2023).
“26 5 California Civil Procedure Code § 1860 also permits consideration of the circumstances under 27 which a contract was made in interpreting the contract.”
— Cal. Civil Code § 1860(d) — 1 case
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