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ARLINGTON HOTEL v. FANT

No. 157.

278 U.S. 439 (1929)

49 S.Ct. 227

73 L.Ed. 447

ARLINGTON HOTEL COMPANY v. FANT ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 18, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Thomas K. Martin, with whom Messrs. Wm. H. Martin and E. Hartley Wootton were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Messrs. Henry M. Armistead, Ashley Cockrill, A.J. Murphy, and Scott Wood were on the brief for defendants in error.

Mr. William Waller, with whom Mr. Seth M. Walker was on the brief, as amici curiae, on behalf of Mrs. Elsie Williams, by special leave of Court.

Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

These are three suits brought in the Circuit Court of Garland County, Arkansas, against the Arlington Hotel Company, a corporation of Arkansas, in which the plaintiffs seek to recover for the losses they sustained, when guests of the hotel, in the destruction by fire of their personal property. The hotel was in Hot Springs National Park.

The complaints averred that the United States in 1904 acquired...

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