Exemption of hotel proprietor from liability for property of guest.

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43-40-4. Exemption of hotel proprietor from liability for property of guest.

No hotel proprietor shall be liable for the loss of or injury to such baggage or other articles of property of his guest, unless the same shall have been actually delivered by such guest to such hotel proprietor or to his servants for safekeeping, or unless such loss or injury shall have occurred through the negligence of such hotel proprietor, or by his servants or employees in such hotel.

Source: SL 1913, ch 237, §3; RC 1919, §1000; SDC 1939, §60.0703.


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