No duty to monitor medical conditions of guests.

- O.C.G.A. § 43-21-1 et seq., does not impose upon innkeepers the duty to rescue and does not expand an innkeeper's duty of care for the personal safety of the innkeeper's guests beyond that required in the state's caselaw; to require that an innkeeper monitor in any manner the possible health problems of a guest, which are not caused by or are unrelated to the stay at the facility, is not only unwarranted as a matter of law but unworkable as a matter of fact and practicality. Rasnick v. Krishna Hospitality, Inc., 289 Ga. 565, 713 S.E.2d 835 (2011).

Liability for baggage commences at time of delivery to hotel porter at depot.

- Traveler who is met at a depot by the porter of a hotel, who indicates a conveyance by which the traveler may go to the hotel, becomes the guest of the hotel so far as to render the proprietor liable for safe-keeping of the traveler's baggage or baggage check delivered to the porter; such liability commences from time of delivery to porter. Coskery v. Nagle, 83 Ga. 696, 10 S.E. 491 (1889).

Issue of guest status and liability for jewelry.

- There was an issue of fact as to whether the guest was still a "guest" at the time the guest's jewelry was entrusted to the hotel and, therefore, whether the innkeeper statutes applied, but if the guest was still a guest at the time the guest asked the hotel to keep the jewelry, the claim under the innkeeper statutes was limited to $1,000. Jordan v. Marriott Int'l, Ga. App. , 816 S.E.2d 822 (2018).

Guest status.

- There was an issue of fact as to whether the guest was still a "guest" at the time the guest entrusted jewelry to the hotel because there were no check-in documents in the record and the hotel failed to meet the hotel's burden of showing exactly when the guest ceased being a guest at the hotel. Jordan v. Marriott International, Inc., Ga. App. , S.E.2d (June 28, 2018).

Persons not paying fee for room are not guests.

- Trial court erred by assuming that the defendants had a continuing expectation of privacy in a hotel room because a guest services agent had the authority to evict the defendants from the room once the agent learned that the defendants had checked into the hotel using a fraudulent credit card, and because the defendants had obtained the room through a fraudulent credit card that would not be honored by the credit card company, the defendants were not paying a fee for the room and were not guests within the meaning of O.C.G.A. § 43-21-1(1); therefore, the defendants could be evicted from the room for cause, and if the defendants were being evicted from the hotel for cause, under O.C.G.A. § 43-21-3.1(b), the defendants were not entitled to notice of the eviction. State v. Delvechio, 301 Ga. App. 560, 687 S.E.2d 845 (2009).

No duty to comply with requests to attempt rescue of guest from medical peril.

- Court of appeals did not err in affirming an order granting a motel summary judgment in a wife's a wrongful death action, alleging that the failure of the motel's personnel to heed her concern about the guest amounted to a breach of duty to render aid to a guest because the motel had no duty to comply with the wife's requests to attempt a rescue of the guest from his medical peril; the alleged negligence in the wife's suit could not be credibly cast as a condition of the premises or akin to a premises hazard like a smoke-filled building because any risk or problem stemming from a medical condition unrelated to and not caused by the guest's stay at the facility was not internal to the premises but rather internal to the guest. Rasnick v. Krishna Hospitality, Inc., 289 Ga. 565, 713 S.E.2d 835 (2011).

Cited in World Trade Bus., Inc. v. Amit, Inc., 239 Ga. App. 383, 521 S.E.2d 40 (1999).

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 40A Am. Jur. 2d, Hotels, Motels and Restaurants, § 25 et seq.

C.J.S.

- 43A C.J.S., Inns, Hotels and Eating Places, § 266 et seq.

ALR.

- Relation of innkeeper and guest as affected by payment for accommodation by week, month, or the like, 12 A.L.R. 261; 145 A.L.R. 363.

Improper motive or purpose in going to hotel as affecting one's status as guest, or invitee of a guest, for purpose of determining degree of care owed by proprietor, 16 A.L.R. 1388.

Liability of innkeeper for indignity to one occupying room without being registered, 29 A.L.R. 481.

What constitutes a hotel or inn, 53 A.L.R. 988.